Music: San Francisco Memorial

(See front cover*) When autumn comes, lights are lit at night in the opera houses and orchestra halls of the land. Top hats and ermine come out of the closets of the wealthy, precious tickets are clutched firmly by the poor but cultured, and Music returns to its own in the U. S. Last week the season began on a national scale. In Boston well-groomed Sergei Koussevitzky, in Manhattan electric Arturo Toscanini, in Philadelphia blond-mopped Leopold Stokowski raised their batons over the country's leading orchestras. As usual, and contrary to advance notices...

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