Few months ago Critic Alfred Frankenstein of the San Francisco Chronicle received a letter from a small boy in Australia named Peter Buxton. Peter wanted to know the answers to some questions about "Mr. Yehudi" (Menuhin). Critic Frankenstein was so taken with Peter's knowledgeable prattle that he appointed him the Chronicle's Critic-Down-Under. Last week Critic Buxton's last year's concert-hall impressions were made public under the heading Reasume for 1938:
"Some of the conductors I have seen have got that excited with the music it looked as if they were having a fight with it. ... I think modern music is funny. It...
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