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Nobody else can. For Alfred Hitchcock directed Rebecca, and the 17-stone British melo-maestro knows that nothing is more mysterious in a film than extra sensory perceptions. He knows too that of all mysterious things the most mysterious can be the ordinary human face...
...carpentered scores (Symphony 1933, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Song for Occupations, etc.), Harris really hit his stride with a Third Symphony. No sooner was it finished than Boston's pompous Sergei Koussevitzky rushed to give it a premiere. No sooner had Koussevitzky played it than excitable Maestro Arturo Toscanini (who conducts few U. S. compositions) asked a chance to broadcast it with his NBC Orchestra. Last month (TIME, April 1) Victor recorded...
...than garbing it in a cloak of false colors. The Furtwaengler is a truly magnificent recording, not as literal as the Weingartner, but with tremendous sweep and surge, and recorded beautifully, even though it was issued several years ago. The Furtwaengler is best, but all three are better than Maestro Toscanini's version which sound like the "Hoof Movement" from the "Overture to William Tell...
Latest U. S. maestro to show his head above water is a sprawling, sandy-haired
Coloradan named Edwin McArthur. Last week in Baltimore, at the head of Washington's National Symphony, Maestro McArthur made his first appearance in the East. Behind him was a record of big-time symphony and opera conducting in Sydney, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago. A mere sprig of 32, he had already conducted more Wagnerian opera than many a veteran, had even been mentioned as a candidate for Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, where no U. S.-born maestro has ever held a job. Baltimore critics liked his version of Wagner, his lacy, intricate French scores by Ravel...