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...SUBJECT of the men who conduct and their orchestras is both intriguing and dangerous. The fascinations surrounding a Toscanini or a Koussevitzky are well known; but there is always the fear that attention may be diverted from the music itself to mere personalities. Mr. Ewen has quite evidently endeavored to avoid this pit-fall by mirroring the famous conductors in their musical interpretations rather than through biographical facts alone or individual comparisons. The latter are not neglected, to be sure, for enough of the personal history is given to shed light on the backgrounds of the men themselves...
When Arturo Toscanini announced that this season would be his last with the Philharmonic-Symphony, every music-loving New Yorker realized that the proud Manhattan orchestra was face-to-face with a perilous crisis. Toscanini was regarded as a musical god, incomparable and unapproachable. No ordinary successor could begin to fill his boots. The Philharmonic directors sat through many a worried session, finally offered the post to Germany's Wilhelm Furtwangler who relinquished it when he heard of the stormy protests against his Nazi connections. The hunt went on until last week when five conductors were announced...
...surprise appointment was that of Britain's John Barbirolli, 36, an unknown so far as most Philharmonic subscribers were concerned. Conductor Barbirolli was born of a French mother and an Italian father who played the violin under Toscanini at La Scala. Except for his music the young conductor seems typically British. He was born in Bloomsbury, loves Bloomsbury, lives in Bloomsbury in a four-room flat. He relishes Yorkshire ham and cricket matches. But, like the Barbirollis before him, he took naturally to a musical career. At 11 he made a concert debut as a cellist. Later he toured...
Last week the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra was still without a general musical director to succeed Arturo Toscanini, who retires after this season. The Orchestra's first choice, Wilhelm Furtwängler, declined after liberals and Jews who suspect him of Nazi sympathies had raised a row (TIME, March 9 & 23). The second choice, whose name was revealed last week, would have been eminently satisfactory to anti-Nazis. Fritz Busch, onetime director of the Dresden Opera, lost his job in 1933 because of his liberal leanings. A onetime guest conductor in Manhattan...
...traveling clock. The Metropolitan directors gave their usual scroll; the chorus, a silver coffee urn; the stage hands, a silver vase; the orchestra, a plaque. Nothing seemed to please Bori more than when Manager Edward Johnson handed her a silver bowl filled with gladioli "from the great Maestro Arturo Toscanini...