Word: wiesbadener
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...vigorously denied ever since, the sale of Germany's Opel Motor Works to General Motors last week became a fact. As in many a domestic merger, the emphasis given denials forecast a deal of large proportions. Thus, last week, no less than three presidents journeyed to Wiesbaden* to sign the contract. They were: the President of General Motors Corp. (Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.); the President of General Motors Export Co. (James David Mooney); the President of Fisher Bodies Corp. (Frederick J. Fisher), chief of the seven money-minting Fisher brothers...
...Bodanzky, conductor of German Opera at the Metropolitan since 1915, will resign at the end of the season. Conductor Bodanzky wants his time for the Friends of Music Society, for festivals abroad. His place at the Metropolitan will be taken by Joseph Rosenstock, now at the State Opera in Wiesbaden...
WANTED, by the New York Symphony -a conductor. For three seasons now, since Walter Damrosch first hinted that his days of active service were numbered, Manhattan has known the New York Symphony Society to be on the lookout for a new and permanent conductor. The German Otto Klemperer (Wiesbaden) was imported for two seasons, tried and found wanting. So was the German Fritz Busch (Dresden) who just completed a trial term of nearly three months. Not for some time, in fact, has anything akin to satisfaction prevailed at a New York Symphony concert until last week. Then Ossip Gabrilowitsch, borrowed...
Towering aloft like a column of smoke and fire, Otto Klemperer "volcano of Wiesbaden," brandished the baton relinquished last week by Eugene Goosens as guest conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra, and conducted the first of 26 concerts scheduled for his first visit...
...York Symphony), he spent his early years in the operatic field. He was still in his early 20's when Gustav Mahler sought and secured his services as conductor in the German Opera House at Prague. Strasburg, Cologne and Berlin knew him for several years. He went to Wiesbaden in 1923. It is his practice to spend half of each year traveling outside of Germany, so that Russia, Spain, Italy and Austria are familiar with his dark, dynamic genius...