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People who have been watching Arturo Toscanini conduct lately were not surprised when it was announced last week that he would be unable to finish his midwinter engagement with Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony. Since early in the summer Toscanini has suffered excruciating pain in his right arm. Like many a conductor before him (Leopold Stokowski, Willem Mengelberg, Richard Strauss), he has a sub-deltoid bursitis or "glass arm," an affliction which orchestra leaders and schoolboys get from the same cause. Schoolboys get it from throwing pebbles or crabapples instead of baseballs, conductors from putting too much energy into their waving...
...next few weeks substitutes were needed. The choice of Detroit's Ossip Gabrilowitsch and of Hans Lange, the Philharmonic's assistant conductor, surprised no one. The engagement of Vladimir Golschmann for Christmas week aroused controversy, as did the Philadelphia Orchestra's engagement of Eugene Ormandy, another beneficiary of Toscanini's glass arm, now permanently established in Minneapolis (TIME...
...Manhattan, Guila Bustabo, a 14-year-old Chicagoan who looks like Artist Tenniel's Alice in Wonderland, played the violin brightly for an audience which included Violinist Fritz Kreisler and three Philharmonic conductors-Erich Kleiber, Ernest Schelling, Arturo Toscanini...
...Yehudi Menuhin. In Manhattan the Busch name is familiar because of Adolf's brother Fritz (they were the sons of a famed Westphalian violin-maker), who conducted the New York Symphony for a time. In Manhattan next week Violinist Busch will be given an enviable debut.* Conductor Arturo Toscanini, who usually refuses to have soloists on his programs, has invited Busch to play at his first concert of the season. Toscanini and Busch are great friends. They exchange little conversation because Busch speaks almost no Italian, Toscanini almost no German. But they spend a great deal of time gazing...
...could find- violinist in Manhattan's Capitol Theatre orchestra. One day the conductor was taken suddenly ill and the pale young Hungarian led the orchestra without a score on a few hours' notice. Another ailing conductor gave Eugene Ormandy his big chance last week: Arturo Toscanini was unable to keep his engagements with the Philadelphia Orchestra because of arm neuritis. Illustrious conductors are difficult to obtain on short notice. The management thought of Ormandy, his good stewardship in radio (Dutch Masters, Jack Frost hours), his occasional successes at summer concerts in Philadelphia and Manhattan. A bit bewildered...