Word: sabata
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Argentina's foremost composer, Juan José Castro,* 57, had reason to believe he would fare pretty well. A panel of distinguished judges, including Stravinsky, Honegger and La Scala's principal conductor, Victor de Sabata, had picked his Proserpina and the Stranger over 137 other entries (16 from the U.S.) in La Scala's international contest for the best three-act opera. A philosophical soul, Castro was surprised but not overwhelmed at winning the contest. Said he: "I am always prepared for things not to go well. For me, submitting the opera was like playing the lottery...
...Hollywood Bowl "Symphonies under the Stars": Gregor Piatigorsky, Yehudi Menuhin, soloists; Jose Iturbi, Alfred Wallenstein, Victor de Sabata conducting...
...Ravinia Music Festival, Highland Park, Ill.: Budapest String Quartet, Jan Peerce, guests; William Steinberg, De Sabata, Monteux, Mitropoulos conducting...
...harbor, immigration authorities seized one distinguished victim after another. There was Friedrich Gulda, a talented 20-year-old Austrian pianist who had come to give a concert in Carnegie Hall (Gulda had been required to join a Nazi youth group at the age of ten). Famed Conductor Victor de Sabata, who conducted at Tanglewood earlier this year and was coming again as guest conductor for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, had conducted Milan's La Scala orchestra during the Mussolini regime. A German war bride of Philadelphia, returning from a visit to her mother in Germany, was detained because...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Victor de Sabata conducting...