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Bayreuth. Wagner Festival, July 21-Aug. 19. Tannhauser will be given July 21, Aug. i, Aug. 5, Aug. 8, Aug. 17 under Arturo Toscanini. Parsifal, also under Toscanini, will be given July 22, Aug. 2, Aug. 6, Aug. 9, Aug. 19. Tristan und Isolde will be conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler July 23, Aug. 3, Aug. 18. The Ring under Karl Elmendorff will be given twice?July...
Salzburg. Special music and drama, July 25-Aug. 30. Diversified programs will be directed by such famed men as Max Reinhardt, Arturo Toscanini, Ernst von Dohnanyi, Clemens Krauss, Franz Schalk, Bruno Walter...
...clicking of a Morse telegraph ticker described the action so vividly that no explanation of the story was needed. The performance was conducted, characteristically, by Erich Kleiber of the Berlin Staatsoper. This pleasant bald-headed gentleman (who, at the New York Philharmonic, is overshadowed by the severely classical Arturo Toscanini) has championed more modern opera than any other man in Germany. He directed the premieres of Austrian Alban Berg's Wozzeck (five years before Stokowski gave it to Philadelphia), Frenchman Darius Milhaud's Cristophe Colomb (written to the libretto of French Ambassador Paul Claudel), Czech Jaromir Weinberger's Schwanda, scheduled...
...invited to return. Bruno Walter was twice guest leader of the defunct New York Symphony, but in his brief regime he could not raise it from the lethargy into which it had sunk after years under Walter Damrosch. The fifth great maestro, who has not failed, is Arturo Toscanini. Under his guidance the New York Philharmonic-Symphony is enjoying the greatest prosperity of its history. To share the baton with him next year will come German Erich Kleiber and, announced last week, again Bruno Walter...
...members of the New York Symphony who play now with the Philharmonic are said to be delighted over Walter's return. They adore their fiery Toscanini but Walter, they recall, was always considerate and gentle at rehearsals. Audiences too will note a great difference in the methods of the two men. Conductor Walter's gestures are restrained. He often signifies his wishes by a slight facial expression. He will not perform any of his own compositions, that much is sure. He does not like them...