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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conductor Klemperer is as exciting to watch as the music he makes. He is so tall (6 ft. 7 in.) that he uses no podium but even without one he has to bend like a melon rind to get level with his men. When he spreads his arms an entire orchestra seems to fall under the shadow of his wings. For a lush string passage one arm will suddenly take the form of a violin while he plays on it with the other. He stands erect for staccato effects, hunches his head forward and fairly plucks the quick, short notes...
...Humphrey Hamill of the Orchestral Association reassured those worried about the future of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, endangered last spring by the bickerings be tween its backers and the Chicago Federation of Musicians. The season will open Oct. 14, with Chicago's beloved Frederick August Stock on the podium once more...
...night of the Stadium season came during last week, the final week when 17,000 people jammed their way into the Stadium (a record) and 4,000 more were turned away grumbling. It was the first concert ever dedicated entirely to the works of George Gershwin. Alternating on the podium were Conductor Coates and William Merrigan Daly, radio and Broadway conductor, onetime managing editor of Everybody's Magazine (Walter Lippmann was his assistant in 1914). At the piano were Composer Gershwin and able Oscar Levant...
Almost from pier to podium popped busy, plump little Conductor Fritz Reiner. He had just stepped off the boat from Italy the day before his first Stadium concert. Gustily he spoke of his summer doings. He had conducted in Milan, Naples, had tried to reduce at Marienbad, had peered about Venice for antiques and lace. With five cameras (two cinema) he and his wife had photographed each other climbing up the Jungfrau, standing in front of Dr. Axel Munthe's San Michele on Capri...