The Archive · 1936

Japanese Musician Tells Career

Mas Conducted Berlin Orchestra He cannot live without Schubert and so he goss everywhere with an album of Schubert songs which he plays on the piano, This is what Viscount Hidemaro Konoye, organizer and conductor for several years of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, who has come here to conduct the first special concert of the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra tomorrow afternoon, told press ropresentatives on Friday.

Viscount Konoye, who has boon studying musie for 37 of his 37 years, also admitted that he likes all musie of all countries—if it is good, He does not care much for opera, principally because it is so dimeult 10 give a perfect performance,

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