Word: podium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last week towering Otto Klemperer marched before the Philharmonic Symphony, thrust his baton into the air and drew forth the overture to a new music season. Next day in Philadelphia Leopold Stokowski was back on his spotlit chromium podium. Rehearsals were under way in Boston under Sergei Koussevitzky, in Cleveland under Artur Rodzinski. Soon orchestras all over the U. S. will be in full stride...
...Mall. Well do they know its words, its lively chorus with breaks during which they whistle and sing la-la-la-la. One night last week the Goldman Band launched into On the Mall, but for once not under the baton of white-mopped Bandmaster Goldman. On the podium stood a dark, chunky little man in a white suit. He waved his arms in a vigorous if unorthodox beat. He smartly stopped the musicians in time for each whistle and la-la-la-la. Then New York's music-loving Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, son of an Army bandmaster, brought...
...Manhattan, sturdy little Jose Iturbi. by now accepted as a first-class conductor as well as a brilliant pianist, mounted a podium in the floodlighted Lewisohn Stadium, led the Philharmonic-Symphony expertly through the Star-Spangled Banner, Wagner's rousing overture to Die Meistersinger, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, three dances from De Falla's Three-Cornered Hat and, with Violinist Albert Spalding, the Mendelssohn Concerto. As usual, aged Adolph Lewisohn, donor of the Stadium and a patron of the concerts, made a little speech. So did peppery, music-loving Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia. Hooted and booed by radicals...
Whether Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler swallowed his artistic conscience or whether Nazi Germany suddenly decided that it could dispense with him no longer, no one was willing to say last week. However the reconciliation came about, Germany's ablest musicmaker was back on the podium, leading the Berlin Philharmonic for an audience that roared its welcome for 25 minutes...
Returning to the directorial podium refreshed by an extended European summer, Dr. Koussevitsky submits an interesting, effectively contrasted program to his Cambridge subscribers, where Town and Gown--Brattle Street on the one hand, balanced by delegations, of the music-hungry from Harvard and Radcliffe--crowd the Elizabethan stalls and galleries in the dim light of the ancient gas chandelier. Three major works are listed for performance: Weber's brightly pointed overture to his opera "Oberon"; Borodin's Second Symphony; and the mighty D Minor Symphony of Cosar Franck which was played last week at the opening pair of concerts...