Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attender at the Salzburg and Bayreuth Festivals, Captain Christie long had an ambition to establish an operatic festival of similar quality in England. In 1933 at Copenhagen he unfolded his scheme to round-faced Conductor Fritz Busch, German political exile and famed former conductor of the Dresden Opera. Enthusiastic Maestro Busch called in the help of his expatriated countryman, Stage Director Carl Ebert. With Austrian Impresario Rudolf Bing as General Manager, the first Glyndebourne opera season was launched. It lasted two weeks; the audience for the opening performance numbered twelve. But Christie, Busch, Ebert and Bing were undiscouraged. The press...
...conceded a place at the top of his profession ; and few have ever rated a job as chief of even a second-rate U. S. symphony orchestra. A rare exception is the Kansas City Philharmonic's Karl Krueger, who last week completed a tour of Italy as guest maestro with the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra. Fuzzy-headed, cigar-puffing Krueger, who during the past four years has put Kansas City, Mo., on the symphonic map, was born in Atchison, Kans...
...very seldom awarded to U. S.-born aspirants, full-fledged conductorships almost never. U. S. audiences, long accustomed to judging other types of musicians impartially on their merits, still flock more eagerly to hear a fourth-rate foreign conductor than to hear a fairly well-equipped and conscientious native maestro. Boards of directors of U. S. symphony orchestras, sometimes influenced by socialite patronesses, usually demand colorful or famous personalities. Current in orchestral circles is the remark of a well-known pianist's wife:* "When a conductor in Europe has a love affair, the result usually is a child...
...Europe but have launched their careers there. European opera houses will occasionally take on a U. S. student for odd jobs. Second-rate European orchestras can usually be hired for concerts. But hiring a loo-man orchestra to practice on is a luxury that only a very liberally financed maestro can afford...
Next Monday is Harvard Night at the Pops. The program will be divided into three parts, with a guest conductor for each group of pieces. First visiting maestro will be Ernest Hoffmann '18, who has proved his ability to many Cambridge music lovers in his former conducting of the State Symphony Orchestra. He will present a march by Strube called "Harvard Cruiser." This will be followed by von Weber's Overture to "Oberon," with Three German Dances by Mozart and Dvorak's "New World" Symphony bringing the group to a close...