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...least one proposition, music-loving Bostonians consistently cast a unanimous vote: their Boston Symphony Orchestra is the best in the world. Last summer, with the missionary spirit of Pilgrim Fathers, they dipped into pocket, sent the Boston's 102 instrumentalists, under Conductors Charles Munch and Pierre Monteux, on their first tour of darkest Europe-Amsterdam, Brussels, London and Paris (TIME...
...proving it." Eager Greeters. While the orchestra was proving itself, its members were piling up travel stories. About half of them were in the West for the first time; a good 80% spent hours snapping scenery with their cameras. In El Paso, enthusiastic Texans draped Conductor Monteux in a Mexican serape; in Tucson, a vigilante committee routed Conductor Munch out of his berth and-with assurances that it was the greatest prize within their gift- led him to a tree. slung a rope around his neck and treated him to an honorary hanging...
...Ecole Monteux, at Hancock, Maine, where 50 young (average age: 30) professionals take a month of intensive podium training at Conductor Pierre Monteux's own school...
...still popular, consistently drawing more listeners than highbrow events. The Kern-Hammerstein night played to 19,000. the Gershwin night to 18,500. The best draws (17,500) among the classical programs: 1) Contralto Marian Anderson; 2) the combination of Beethoven's music, the conducting of Pierre Monteux and the violin playing of Yehudi Menuhin...
...Manhattan, where he is wielding a guest baton at Lewisohn Stadium, San Francisco's French-born Conductor Pierre Monteux decided it was high time to explain the discrepancy between his white moustache and black hair and to deny again the rumor that his hair is dyed. Said he: "My moustache is white from kissing the girls. But my hair is true black. Anyone is welcome to come with alcohol, with shampoo, with anything, to wash my hair and prove...