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Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, New York City's handsome Official Greeter and Police Commissioner in years gone by, now the maestro of its 1939 World's Fair, last week sat through a curious meeting in the Fair's administration building. Absent was George A. McAneny, the Fair's first promoter who was demoted to chairman of the Fair corporation board to make way for President Whalen. Present was a tall, shy, greying civil engineer named Joseph F. Shadgen. By proxy Mr. McAneny had to admit that Engineer Shadgen was really the man who "originated" the Fair...
...years ago the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's board of directors were casting about for a successor to Maestro Arturo Toscanini, just retired. Shortly after they signed up Germany's famed Wilhelm Furtwangler it was announced from Berlin that Conductor Furtwangler had accepted the high, Nazi-dominated post of Generalmusikdirektor at the Berlin State Opera. Thereupon irate Philharmonic-Symphony subscribers demanded, and got, Conductor Furtwangler's immediate resignation from the Philharmonic-Symphony post (TIME, March...
White-haired little Maestro Arturo Toscanini, who fortnight ago was supposed to have had his passport revoked by Italy's Fascist Government, booked last-minute passage on the Normandie, sailed without his wife, who had accompanied him as far as Paris. Asked by a reporter what his latest tiff with the Fascists was all about...
Though the critical statement in Thursday morning's Music Box column concerning the concert of the Boston Symphony on Thursday is open to more comment than the one that, I have to make, I think it is important that I should make the following statement in order to justify Maestro Koussevitzky's choice of program, if justification is at all needed...
...financed an orchestra for Koussevitzky to practice on, and gave a series of concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The Koussevitzky Concerts began to catch on with the Russian public. The Koussevitzkys chartered a ferryboat, made a tour of the Volga. By 1910 Koussevitzky was the most widely-known maestro in Tsarist Russia. Meanwhile he had started a publishing house for music by contemporary Slavic composers, published for the first time (thus, incidentally, sparing himself the performance royalties) works by such famed artists as the late Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Prokofieff and Igor Stravinsky...