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...Europe Elisabeth Ohms is regarded as one of the foremost singers of the day. A native of Arnhem, Holland, she began to study singing at 16, was graduated from the Amsterdam Conservatory at 19, soon afterward appeared in concerts under Conductor Willem Mengelberg. Her operatic career was chiefly molded in Germany-in Mainz where she sang for two years, in Munich where tourists have flocked to hear her Isolde, her Leonore (Fidelio), her Elektra, her Tosca, her Brünnhildes in the Ring operas. Famed too have been her appearances at London's Covent Garden, at La Scala...
Conductor Willem Mengelberg of the New York Philharmonic welcomed Iturbi on his return to Manhattan. He gave him a birthday party, had a many-layered cake fashioned to represent a skyscraper. Iturbi, hugely pleased, cut it with a swoop while Pianist Ernest Schelling looked on with greedy eye. Iturbi sneaked his portion away, took it back to his hotel and sent it, adorned with two candles, to his twelve-year-old daughter in Paris. Soon afterward he appeared as Philharmonic Soloist under Mengelberg, won the acclaim of critics and public alike. Last week he gave a Manhattan recital solo...
...Portland (Ore.) Symphony began its 19th season, its fifth under Conductor Willem Van Hoogstraten. This year's program includes ten Monday-evening concerts, five Sunday matinees, five concerts for young people. A special feature will be the presentation during the Christmas season of Handel's Messiah...
...Cleveland Orchestra, Nikolai Sokoloff; the Cincinnati Symphony, Fritz Reiner; the Detroit Symphony, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, conductor, Victor Kolar, associate conductor and Eugene Goossens and Bernardino Molinari, guest conductors; the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Artur Rodzinski beginning his first season as conductor; the Minneapolis Symphony, Henri Verbrugghen; the Portland (Ore.) Symphony. Willem van Hoogstraten; the Rochester Philharmonic, beginning its first season in association with the New Civic Orchestra, Eugene Goossens; the St. Louis, Enrique Fernandez Arbos, Bernardino Molinari, George Szell, Eugene Goossens, guest conductors; the San Francisco Symphony, Alfred Hertz, beginning his last season as conductor...
...guest-conducting of the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra in Lewisohn Stadium, Manhattan, 80 minutes before his boat sailed for Europe one night last week. He still had time to make a speech, and said, "It isn't an orchestra. It's a miracle." Knowing ones credited tireless Willem von Hoogstraten, summer director...