BEECHAM BANS WOMEN FROM NEW ORCHESTRA
SiR THOMAS BEECHAM has just formed another orchestra-his sixth -and it gave its first concert in Croydon, London,’ just three weeks ago. According to "Time, Sir Thomas gave as his reason for the new venture: "There is no existing British orchestra of a high enough standard to maintain my reputation." The new orchestra is known as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and Beecham has announced that it is the highest paid in London. He has engaged for it some of Britain’s best musicians, but no women. , "Tf a lady is not well-favoured," he said, "the male instrumentalists do not wish to play near her. If she is wellfavoured, they can’t." His own young
wife is both well-favoured, and a concert pianist, and Beecham quickly added, "Not that I don’t think women are good musicians." The orchestra’s first programme consisted of Tchaikovski’s symphonic poem Romeo and Juliet, Rossini’s William Tell Overture, Mozart’s Symphony in C Major, No. 36, and Delius’s Over the Hills and Far Away. The Times said that the impression was of "vitality rather than virtuosity." The new orchestra is to give fortnightly concerts for a season of eight months, and then will probably tour England and the Continent, eventually visiting the United States. Beecham says that 60 or 70 American cities have invited him to bring an English orchestra to them,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 382, 18 October 1946, Page 23
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