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Of music itself. -- Classical versus popular -- A musical vocabulary -- The fetish of masterpieces -- Contemporary music, eighteenth and twentieth century style -- Composers are people. -- The Russian way -- Juke box boys -- Stravinsky and Strauss -- Schwanda and a swindle -- The monk's tale -- Conductor and composer -- Kreisler's deception -- Commercial art -- Trio for clarinet violin and piano -- Schuman is not a Schumann -- The do-re-mi. -- Toscanini Koussevitzky and Stokowski -- More conductors less money -- Horowitz and Rachmaninoff -- Play this on your fiddle -- The poor cello -- Men women and singers -- In union there is -- Laissez Faire in music -- Musicians in the public eye. -- Temperament tells -- Toscanini's tantrums -- Beecham waves the star spangled banner -- Moore versus Kiepura -- Flagstad versus Melchior -- Bruno Walter's downbeat -- Baccaloni and Buffo -- Casals and cello -- White of an egg blowing bubbles and standing on your head -- Handshakers -- Warming up -- Hot or cold -- Barnstorming -- The press -- Paderewski was not a mormon -- Meet the glamour boys. -- Toscanini the monarchist -- Watch the birdie -- Stokowski's hands -- Life begins at forte -- NCB symphony -- Mitropoulos and an ambulance -- Koussevitzsky talks back -- Guest conductor -- The glamour boys at work. -- Toscanini the singer -- From one cellist to another -- The secret of a good memory -- Stokowski and a lone flower -- On his hobbyhorse -- Hokey stokie -- The koussevitzky beat -- A volga boatman -- A smile for Bruno Walter -- Temper and Klemperer -- Beecham at the Met -- Barbirolli -- Damrosch on American music -- The glamour boys at home. -- Tea for two -- Koussevitzky and Stokowski writers -- The gout -- Growing old -- Two Toscaninis -- Granddaughter knows best -- Horowitz's father-in-law -- Pinball game -- Reflections on virtuosos. -- From mansion to water tank -- All Heifetz can do -- Horowitz's inferiority complex -- Practice doesn't necessarily make perfect -- Perfidious passages -- Two on Elman -- Horowitz and conductors -- Paderewski in self-communion -- Voices and artists. -- Donkeys and philosophers -- Musicianship -- The ad libber -- Broadway or the Met? -- Martinelli won't do -- Kiepura on the taking end -- Seduction scene -- Singing what they shouldn't -- Flagstad falls asleep -- The boys in orchestra. -- The New York Philharmonic plus Stokowski -- Baiting the conductor -- Orchestra rehearsal -- Woes of the French horn player -- Pulling strings -- Cards -- Women in the orchestra -- Personnel manager -- Librarian -- The amateurs bless them -- Letter from an amateur -- Amateur cellist -- The oratorio society -- Grand opera in Raleigh -- Doctors -- Chamber music fans -- Amateur meets professional -- Try it on your recorder -- All Smith wonders -- Any hope for opera. -- The Metropolitan -- Radames the hero -- The prompter -- Maestro Salmaggi -- The new opera company -- Nine o'clock opera company -- American operas -- Opera in English -- Orchestras American specialty. -- Two orchestras in one -- The New York Philharmonic -- The Mexican way -- Radio orchestra -- Upkeep of an orchestra -- Endowments -- Giving the public a voice -- Concert folklore. -- Concert manners -- A singing painter -- Song with a goose -- Recorder recital -- Only Albanian singer in American -- Curzon and Paderewski -- Cocktail party in the New York public library -- How to make chimes -- Stage fright -- The society of timid souls -- Even the doorman knows better -- The Negro in music. -- Segregation -- Marian Anderson and the D.A.R. -- The key to a city but not to a hotel room -- The Negro in opera -- Porgy's Bess -- The changing scene. -- Radio -- Background music -- Film music -- Jazz the people's music -- Jazz in Carnegie Hall -- Federal music project -- The four freedoms -- Music in the armed forces -- On black disks. -- Concerts of recorded music -- Add-a-part records -- Caruso made it respectable -- Two highballs make history -- Bugs -- Recording technique -- The big three -- For the children's hour. -- Music in school -- Playing an instrument -- Concerts for children -- The prodigy -- Music teachers -- Patron and patroness. -- A people's opera -- The public chips in -- Constructive patronage -- Hail the audience. -- The initiated and the unititiated -- Big names -- Applause -- Program notes -- The five wise apples -- Nelson Eddy Ladies -- Middlemen of music. -- Managers -- Twenty per cent was not too much -- First concept -- Press agents -- Critics -- Mary Garden on criticism -- Asleep in town hall -- In the affairs of men. -- The difference between Busch and Furtwangler -- The adventures of Vaughan Williams -- Toscanini and fascist Italy -- Casals and fascist Spain -- Enemy art -- Social significance in music -- The musician in the community -- Index. |
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