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Great arc lights 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 nearbyto 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...
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