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Died. Desire Defauw, 74, Belgian symphony conductor, brought to the U.S. by Arturo Toscanini in 1939, subsequently musical director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1943-47) and of the Gary (Ind.) Symphony Orchestra from 1955 until his retirement in 1958; of pneumonia; in Gary...
...showmanship, Brooklyn-born Milton Katims. 50, is a solidly gifted musician who has given Seattle the best orchestra in its somewhat chaotic music history. A first-rate violist. Katims played in the NBC Symphony under Toscanini for ii years, and studied the Toscanini technique. In rehearsal he is still given to shouting Arturo-isms: "Dream with me!" and "Make it barbaric!" The Dustman. When Katims arrived in Seattle in 1954, the city was still trying to forget its last permanent conductor, France's Manuel Rosenthal, who was for bidden re-entry to the U.S. in 1951 for perjuring himself...
...April 18 TIME LISTINGS, there is a reference to me- unavoidable, since a current novel of mine has been on your bestseller list for a good many weeks. And in your Music section, you lead off with an appreciation of a recording of excerpts from the rehearsals of Maestro Toscanini, in which I had a certain part. Your music critic, like your book reviewer, who evidently considers my novels beneath his notice, has chosen to ignore me, which is a treatment I much prefer to possible deprecation...
...fact is that the recording is the joint property of Mr. Walter Toscanini and myself; that it was released by us jointly for sale for the benefit of The Musicians' Foundation; and that my part in the record was thought necessary for and by the largely lay audience to whom the rehearsal excerpts were first presented. I am sure your music critic considers my remarks as unworthy of his notice as your book reviewer considers my novels; but Maestro Toscanini was one of the people who recognize that I have my place in American letters and in musical expertise...
...Traviata (Nov. 28, Nov. 30, 1946). Released by the conductor's son Walter, the disk is not available in record stores, can be bought only with a contribution (minimum: $25) to the Musicians Foundation, Inc., 131 Riverside Drive, New York City 24-a charitable organization to which Toscanini contributed both time and money...