"Three cheers for Albert Coates and the Soviet Union!" cried a young Manhattanite early this month when Conductor Coates took over the last half of the Stadium concerts of the New York-Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. Albert Coates tried to look unconcerned during the prolonged applause, making only the vaguest of gestures. Then he bobbed ebulliently over his orchestra, resembling greatly a Roman emperor, although illness last spring had reduced his weight from 240 lb. to 200 Ib. From night to night thereafter he presided over such various...
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