Nineteen years ago. when Vladimir Golschmann first picked up the baton of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, he hardly seemed the man St. Louisans would choose for a permanent conductor. He was Parisian to his tapering fingertips; St. Louis was used to a rich German accent in its music. In Paris, Golschmann had been a champion of the upstart modernists known as the French Six.* hardly a recommendation for a post in a city devoted to Mozart, Wagner and Brahms.
And he was only 37, almost an unripe youngster to be conducting one of the oldest orchestras in the U.S.*
Yet somehow Conductor...
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