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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arts exhibit features "the only representative collection of Scottish Old Masters ever assembled under one roof." When a Scot commissioned such painters as Sir John Lavery, Sir David Cameron, Allan Ramsay or Alexander Eraser to do his portrait or a bit of native scenery, his heirs somehow managed to keep the picture in the family and few have had to be sold to buyers like Sir Joseph Duveen or Sotheby's of London. The canny private owners were induced to loosen up and loan their paintings for this year's display...
William Primrose (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Red). No. i Viola Virtuoso plays William Walton's Concerto with NBC Symphony under direction of BBC's Sir Adrian Boult...
Most indispensable of these whippers-into-shape, however, was a bouncing, imperial-bearded British oldster, Sir Thomas Beecham, who has for many years served as Covent Garden's artistic director, England's No. 1 maestro (and one of the six or seven most eminent in the world), Conductor Beecham has been conducting opera and furiously fostering operatic activity for nearly a generation. He has lost fortunes on it, has fed it generously to hungry audiences and stuffed it down less eager throats. A pioneer in presenting new works, he has given Britishers their first taste of more...
Born in 1879, son °of a wealthy British pill manufacturer (Beecham's Pills: "Worth a Guinea a Box"), hearty Sir Thomas got an early start waving a baton over orchestras and operatic casts. In 1906 he founded the New Symphony Orchestra (now the Royal Albert Hall Orchestra), and in the next three years doggedly conducted a series of Queen's Hall concerts despite discouragingly small public response. In 1911 he was instrumental in bringing the Imperial Russian Ballet to London, two years later combined it with a season of Russian opera. Many English composers...
Exuberant Sir Thomas can usually be counted on to pull a rabbit of some sort out of his hat. This season's rabbit: an unknown, good-looking, 26-year-old,Polish-born soprano named Margaret Kubatzki. Soprano Kubatzki, making her official Covent Garden debut in a role previously sung by the eminent Kirsten Flagstad (Senta in Wagner's The Flying Dutch-man), created a sensation. Said Conductor Beecham: "One night last October I was turning the various knobs of a wireless ... I heard a magnificent voice. . . . When I went to Germany to make records of the Magic Flute...