Music: U. S. Conductor

Top-rank jobs in U. S. conducting all go to foreigners. Few U. S.-born conductors have had a chance to boss around even a third-class orchestra. But in the past four or five years a few U. S. maestros have bobbed up to the surface of the musical swim and managed to keep afloat. Among them: Kansas City's Karl Krueger, Chicago's Izler Solomon (TIME, March 27).

Latest U. S. maestro to show his head above water is a sprawling, sandy-haired

Coloradan named Edwin McArthur. Last week in Baltimore, at the head of Washington's National Symphony, Maestro McArthur made his first appearance in the East....

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