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From the pit the Philadelphia players gave the score all its eloquence. Conductor Fritz Reiner is a masterful Strauss conductor. His clean direct beat kept the framework exact but he brought out all Strauss's slyness, curved the melodies so that their beauty was bewitching. Said Critic Lawrence Oilman in the New York Herald Tribune: "There has not been heard in this country such an exfoliation of the beauty and the riant comedy of Strauss's irresistible score...
...Walkure, cast with such expert singers as Soprano Dorothee Manski. Tenor Paul Althouse, Baritone Friedrich Schorr. Cleveland has five other operas scheduled. Chiefly important is Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Philadelphia is also trying its hand at the Shostakovich opera under Conductor Fritz Reiner...
...junior orchestra, that he intended, also, to let a few of his players try conducting at the regular Orchestra rehearsals. But Philadelphia's most ambitious project this season does not limelight Stokowski. Beginning next week the Orchestra Association will give a series of operas under Conductors Fritz Reiner & Alexander Smallens...
...cigarets (TIME, Nov. 27). This week Cadillac Motor Cars and Lucky Strike cigarets overtook Chesterfields. Cadillac started a rich symphonic series for Sunday nights (6 to 7 E. S. T.). Bruno Walter conducted the first concert, Jascha Heifetz fiddled. Conductors to come: Artur Bodanzky, Eugene Ormandy, Walter Damrosch, Fritz Reiner, Sir Henry Wood...
...Francisco, the Summer Symphony was ready to open its eighth summer season with eight weekly concerts, the first under Conductor Henry Hadley and others under guest conductors including Richard Lert, Alfred Hertz, Fritz Reiner, Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Another development near San Francisco was the organization, just across the Golden Gate from the city, of the Marin County Musical Chest, financed by subscriptions averaging 25? from members of Marin County's mixed population of esthetes and Portuguese dairy farmers...