ANTHE HONGKONG ; TELEGRAPH, {SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1950,
WORDS *and @MUSICO asks: Why do we rely on foreign conductors??
WANTED: Batons for Britons
by MARIUS POPE
ZESKAERANTIZERJATAGASITORUSTIKUJAIRAALALÁST AUTRJUANGAN
Royalten Kisch shows just how is much luck and circumstance were necessary to produce this one hope for the Zuturo Drillch conducting.
LONDON. And because there is no way THIS WEEK about 50 of knowing the talent that
native to these shores, we either students-a conserva- mick to our old war-horses like tivo estimate settle oult, Cameron and the rest, or
lle is lucky permanent ap- down to their studies Elvo our rare
lo foreign
pounds foreign. ron-
In the art of orchestral pointments
ductors. For single concerts
in nited
conducting at Britain's five and short reasons the choice of
colleges major
diet-conductor
exactly the same field. academies of music.
In anything from one to five years' time they will be turned out into a world that it will welcome them as would an epidemic of in- fluenza,
ot
What are their chances employment? About the same, I estimate, ar two royal flushes being dealt in one round of poker.
When I wrote in this column recently that the principal need
of our orchestras today was for conductors of initiative and per- sonality, many readers retorted: "But where will you Ani. them?"
THE OLD MASTERS
of
that his name
to
He is lucky that he was lo the forces in Italy after the war, and got his big chance. and most of his experience- with the orchestras of Italy and. Greece.
before
the
Now, at the beginning of the 1950-51 muse season, we find. He is lucky that he returned ourselves the Incredible to Brital Just
of position
having more general invasion of guest-con- cheduled under the duelorn from overseas. concerts batons of forelin guest-con- ductora han under those of our own conductors.
Ha own abilities did the rest. Even Mr Kisch's appearances on the platform are few and far) between..
many
The Philharmonija Orchestra, In mine concerts for example,
WASTED TALENT by Wilhelm will be conducted
But there must be Furtwangler (German) four
Rus others, of equal potential, who Igor Markevich times,
Kive anything for his twice, Allein Galliera Would ann).
opportunities. They might (Italian) once, and Paul Kietzid well, at the moment, cry for the (Pollsh-Swiss) once.
The litury Englishman? ja Norman do! Mar.
It
Even the BBC, having ap- pointed Sir Alakolm Sargent ns permanent conductor, now ind themselves relying on a series of Kursi-conductors. moment the BBC con- under
an
Where indeed? Through Incredible lack of policy in this matter we have no recognised way in which a potential ductor can gain experience and prove his worth.
POCKET CARTOON by QSBIRT LANCASTER
the
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At the Orchestra is
the direction of Issy Dobrewen, Russkin-bora direc- tor of the Stockholm Opera. After him, Vittorio Gul, Italian, will
tuke over. And rd in the line-up is Albert Wolff, Paris
TRAIN OUR OWN
of
I do not underestimate the Cale to one musical culture of these ne overseas conductors, but surely if we wish to have
inoon.
#3
Musically we are cutting our own throuts, In an age where' the ery is for more production] at home, It is shocking to allow so much talent to go to waste..
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allthily from the copies Cassells Stanley wil mend to the bookstalls of do something now about train-Went. of Putnams, the Britain next munth.
in long-terin benefit we ought to representative
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OUGLAS YOUNG Is
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"It was a man by the name of Young conducts Hoffmann,"
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For fourteen years, Rudolf Hofmann, a young, revengefut
Let me prejudice you in s German seaman, had sworn to kill the whole Malone family, proving the seriousness of his intentions by liquidating Malone
Hard-paced
It is plain-spoken. It le hard paced. It wastes no time.
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And
Now an anonymous letter to It knows its business, which is to grip, command
showe police department and keep the
with the passing of the alive the interest of the render, that
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Sir Patrick Hastings has been investigating State Trials England. Result, "Famous and.
To lay down this novel, after years, Hoffman's opinion of the Infamous Coste," in November. reiding its first few sentences, Malones has not mellowed with seems only fair, therefore, Idea came from Sir Patrick's calls for a positive and diffelt the years. It
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Rudy in Johnny make up his mind which them as true
"Which I was."
town--that in the most historians. He says: "The history
one of his new chums is the deadly Already then, nt the end of can say. Too illie to be help- Hoffmann. No. That enlighten- they write will live forever. Hadi there been a shorthand-writer an Paragraph Two, the reader has ful; too much for comfort?
ment comes later, when dangers Bonk Hely to create
con he Mr Went sald
troversy is full-dress biography
He this story. A
Findley, this admirable new attack, then of H. G. Wells, being rushed for world's history, might have been dark heart of made the
It turns out to be enough. The performer, հոդ nothing about the
acquaintance of very different."
for that promising young detective quest
Hoffmann takes stepped up the added that it had no bearing at January publication.
on the postponement--
Author is 40-year-old London - all
News uf soft-speaking, John
into novel from one Fruncis Malone, whose Johnny into the Bowery, caused, he told me, "because the journalist Vincent Brome, It Chiengn-born Raymond (Big strength is as the strength of 10 the company of a dope trafficker next, and so on to u climax. Duke has not yet finished revis- took
Chandler: him two years to write. Steep)
pure and named Publisher beenuse his heart is
Muddy Track. info n It is a full story; no trimmings; ing the manuscript."
Says Brome: "I have had necess Hamish Hamilton
with four un- warns me he can drop a half-dollar from sister session
no false note; everything lean, The WC
Duke's Memoirs-they to vast amount of unpublished Chandler has
of grin and collected seven hits hand, step back and drill it attractive personages, one
muscular, down They have been serialised in the papers, letters from Wells's Conn-short, tough
whom, tense stories: with his Smith and Wesson.
a Puerto Rican, per- that very last paragraph which long Sunday Exprestare being friends and enemies. Particular calis it "The Simple Art of
with begins: He is Irish
forins alarming tricks Most of them published in Britain, by Casselis. ly enemies."
Murder." Al made to chill
guns; finally, into the dope "It seemed a shame to waste Date? Not yet fixed.
Friendliest helper was veteran fenturing his hard-boiled private] Johnny is Irish in a way that traffe itself,
my last bullet on u guy who I hear, by the way, The one phenomenon In this
after all, has that novelist, Dorothy M. Richardson. eye, Philip Marlowe, Surprising only old-fashioned New Yorkera Hoffmann,
10 ans no close to the end of the.. British can-American version of "The Little close friend of Wells. "Her ls. Chandler was educated here, still are. He shoots with ve between his attempts to line, but, Held-a postwar
that Princesses”—book about Princess marathon__novel,
(aplomb, remembers the teaching wipe out the Malone clan." And Pilgrimage," ductors the exception
A Book of the Month that of Father O'Flanagan, and has his means of livelihood are as belongs to the hard trade! And proves the rule. A study of the Elizabeth and Princess Margaret discloses Brome, "Elves an inde at Dulwich College.
governess, mate portrail of Wells."
an eye for a pretty nurse in B. nasty ns may be expected.
none the worse for that. 30-year-old by
I am told that the banned Because we in Britain, une if delay had been caused by Ty play "Party Manners" welters, assesses
European countries, do hitter attacks on both the Is to be published in four works' not have the system of employ-Duke and his book in New time by Frederick Muller. lng two br three deputy con-
important or-York magazine, Park East. ductors in cach chestra and spera, our musical bodu could go find a British conductor now for an important Position, even if they wanted And the evidence is that they do not want one.
onc.
The
conductors few hossess are overworked. all made their
before the war.
are getting old.
carce so far
of
names
their former
know
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