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Benar Heifitz is equally famous, holding the position of First Cellist with the N.B.C. Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. Erich I. Kahn is known as a composer of many orchestral pieces and chamber music works, and toured France, Belgium, Holland and England in his pianistic activity...
...Broadcasting Company announced last week that it had fired him from his job as part-time conductor of the NBC Symphony. Behind the blow that knocked British-born, Irish-Pole Stokowski over Radio City's ropes was the fine Italian fist of his onetime pal, spry, bantamweight Arturo Toscanini, 77. The blow was the culmination of a friendship that has gone sour. Few maestros have held each other in such avowed mutual respect as did Toscanini and Stokowski in the '303. A frequent attendant at Toscanini's rehearsals, concerts and broadcasts, Stokowski publicly expressed his tremendous admiration...
...youngest (44) and most energetic of first-rank U.S. maestros; 2) in the twelve years he has spent conducting the Minneapolis and Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, Ormandy has rolled up a radio following comparable to that of such symphonic bigwigs as Serge Koussevitzky and Arturo Toscanini; 3) he has made more phonograph recordings than any other living maestro except Leopold Stokowski...
Absolute Suicide. One fine night Impresario Arthur Judson, Mr.Big of the U.S. concert world, snapped him up as one of the chief maestros of the Judson Radio Program Corp., later a part of the Columbia Broadcasting System. Three years afterward, when Toscanini backed out of a two-weeks' engagement with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Impresario Judson offered the thankless job to Ormandy. Said Judson: "I think it is absolute suicide." Ormandy clicked at once. Immediate result: he was appointed chief conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony. After five years in Minneapolis, Ormandy went to Philadelphia, eventually succeeded Stokowski as chief conductor...
When, in 1935, the San Francisco Musical Association cast about for someone to rescue the San Francisco Symphony from complete financial and artistic collapse, Monteux was suggested for the job. He was then guest-conducting at the-Hollywood Bowl. "The only difference between Toscanini and Monteux," New York Times Critic Olin Downes is reported to have remarked, "is in the waistline." San Francisco took the waistline, soon found that it surrounded one of the most sensitive, civilized, versatile and shrewdly practical men who ever wielded a baton...