Music: Stadium Men

Out of New York City's Lewisohn Stadium last week went hollow-eyed Willem Van Hoogstraten, having conducted the New York Philharmonic Orchestra there for three weeks. After a program of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Bach and Brahms (apparently his favorite composer), he was given tokens of esteem in recognition of his ten-year association with the Stadium concerts, set out for Philadelphia to direct the Philadelphia Orchestra concerts in Robin Hood Dell Park. Next he will go to Europe, return in the autumn to conduct his seventh season in Portland, Ore.

Almost from pier to podium popped busy, plump little Conductor Fritz Reiner. He had just...

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