The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-12
help WANTED-MALE
Bv JOHN SEI.RY
Associated Press Arts Editor
CLEVELAND, Feb. IA

Are you comparatively young?
Are you gifted in musical sense
and are you socially preSentaole
Have you had experience with
an orchestra, and if you're hired
will you be willing to stay a while?
Ale you no. committed else
where. and are you strong? Have
you temperament, and if you hav4,
arc you reasonably easy to get
clong with in spite of it? Can you
handle eighty or ninety men, each
temreramental in his own right?
Are you reasonably easy for the
ladies TO look "a, a good disciDii1
arian, and strong as an OK? Final
ly, are you American?
If YOU can answer yes to most of
these questions, you may taie-
graph Thomas L. Sidlo, president
of the Musical Arts Association of
Cleveland, the group which SIP
ports the Cleveland Orchestra.
Mr.. Sidlo is waiting with opan
arms.
He'll compromise in MS desire
TO find successor to Arthur Rod
;inski, who suddenly announced
one recent winter day that he was
leaving Cleveland for the New
York Philharmonic-S Symphony So
ciety. But he won't, he explains,
compromise too much.
Perhaps the first compromise
will come on the cues ion OF
American birth and training.
Wed like nothing SO much as to
engage an American" he SAYS,
but the number of available
American coductors with the prop
er experience is very low"
Several of the requirements viii
not, he indicates, be abated--
Cleveland's new conductor viii
take over one of the finest orchcs-
tras and most beautiful halls out
siGe the East, and Mr.. SidlO's
board does not intend to see them
Sabotaged either consciously or
otherwise. And although the new
conner is not expected to be tea
hound, the board hopes he will
make himself a part of the city's
life, not shut himself off in a tow
CT somewhere.
Lastly, Mr. Sidlo is not wiling
to take someone else's conductor
unless the someone else is willing.
In the IS years of the Cleveland
Orchestra's history it has had only
two conductors: Nikolai Sokoloff
and Artur RodZinski. Cleveland
likes to keep it's conductors, and
assumes that other towns feel the
same way.
Round about 49, The Two New
York orchestras have come into
their own rccentlv; the Phiihar-
monte under Fritz Reiner has
sounded like it used to under Tos-
canini; the Metropolitan Opera
Orchestra with George Sell even
takes fire in such a ?drab war
horse as "TannhauSer."
Marie Wilkins. the girl from
Lawrence, Kas., who broke into
the Met by substituting on "A
hours notice for Pons in Lakme, "
has been assigned the second most
ungrateful role for soprano
Queen of the Night in Mozart
Magic Flute" James Melton sang
this week his first complete Ira
Viata" in New York. And John
Ctatles Thomas and Nino Martini
this week returned to the fold.
John Barbirolli is quite likely
to return to England this spring
for concerts through the summer
his four weeks with the Philhar-
n,oric will be finished March 8,
Those who are anxious to have
all the Sibelius symphonies on
plsttcrs NAV now add the Seventh,
conducted by Vladimir Golsch-
mann and PLAYED neatly by the ST,
Louis SYMPHONY Wictor). It's one
of the least attractive of the seven
end it isn't very exciting in these
records. for which Golschmann
cannot be blamed. The recording
is good