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...flooded the City College Stadium in New York last week. Some 12.000 people clambered up the bleachers. Dozens more dotted the roofs of the dingy apartment houses nearby-to look down into the football arena which had been converted into summer concert grounds for the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten, looking like a college boy in his white flannel pants, made the opening concert a memorial to Brahms and Wagner.* He flicked his baton in militant, routine fashion but most of the orchestramen needed no leading. They could have played the familiar music with their eyes shut...
...years ago a pale young Hungarian violinist playing in the orchestra at Manhattan's Capitol cinemansion, applied to Conductor Willem Mengelberg for the job of assistant concertmaster with the New York Philharmonic, was refused. The refusal proved fortunate for young Eugene (English for Jeno) Ormandy. Not long afterwards the sudden illness of the Capitol conductor gave Ormandy a chance to show that he could conduct Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony from memory. Eugene Ormandy was leading a radio orchestra when he was called upon last year to pinch-hit for Conductor Arturo Toscanini whose glass arm kept him from...
...LOON'S GEOGRAPHY?Hendrik Willem Van Loon?Simon & Schuster...
Geography, physical and political, has never been made a very exciting subject in school. Smart Hendrik Willem Van Loon makes it exciting by taking it out of school and glorifying it. He is well-advised in having as publishers smart Simon & Schuster, high-pressure popularizers. Written in Van Loon's familiar, not to say impertinent style, as if he were talking to children but hoped to be overheard by grownups, the 525 pages are thickly plummed with sketches and maps, many of them in bright colors. The book's jacket conceals a gaily inaccurate map of the world, "suitable...
...received the resignation of Conductor Karl Krueger. William Clark, book-collecting son of the late Senator Clark of Montana, stands by the Los Angeles Philharmonic even in time of trouble, but his job is lessened by the great popularity of Conductor Artur Rodzinsky. The Portland (Ore.) Symphony under Conductor Willem van Hoogstratten ran an aggressive campaign this season, reduced its salaries...