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Show h1 V J -'V; Eugene Ormandy Hailed as Best. To Conduct Orchestra and Choir Hailed as one of the finest conductors of the world, Eugene Ormandv will direct the Phila- conductor. He immediately had Mr. Ormandy signed as guest conductor and later as conduc tor. Mr. Ormandy held the post until 1936 when he was invited to return to conduct the Philadelphia Phila-delphia Orchestra. Since then critics have constantly con-stantly named the Philadelphia ensemble the leading symphony orchestra in the U.S. Mr. Ormandy has appeared as guest conductor with the leading orchestras of the U.S. and has conducted the major orchestras of Europe, including the Vienna Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic, Phil-harmonic, Concertgebouw, Berlin Ber-lin Philharmonic, L'Orchestre de la Romande and the Bordeaux Festival Orchestra. He has also appeared in Israel, Australia and Latin America. ( Concert goers in both Salt Lake City and Provo will hear Mr, Ormandy conduct the two world famous musical organization organiza-tion in Brahms' "Requiem." The orchestra will round out the program pro-gram with a symphonic concert in each city. delphia Orchestra and the Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir in combined com-bined concerts May 19 and 21. Performances will be in the Salt Lake Tabernacle Saturday, May 19, at 8:30 p.m., and in the George Albert Smith Fieldhouse at BYU in Provo on Monday, May 21, at 8:15 p.m. This season Maestro Ormandy marks his 26th year as music director and conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Critics have called him the "top man of the top orchestra." Mr. Ormandy was only five year old when he entered the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest, Bud-apest, Hungary. At nine he became be-came a pupil of the great violinist violin-ist Jeno Hubay and soon began making public appearances. One performance was before the Emperor Em-peror Francis Josef; others took place before the royal family. At 17 he received his professor's profes-sor's diploma at the Royal Academy Acad-emy and was given degrees in violin playing, composing and counterpoint. Between concert tours as a virtuoso he taught at the State Conservatory in Budapest. Buda-pest. In 1921 a long cherished ambition was fulfilled when he was invited to make a concert tour of the U.S. The tour turned out to be only glittering promises by an inexperienced inex-perienced manager, and the artist art-ist was left in a strange country without friends or funds. After determined effort Mr. Ormandy I became in a short time radio's first important conductor. In 1930 he directed his first concerts con-certs with the Philadelphia Or-;; Or-;; chestra and the New York Phil- harmonic. The turning point of his career came the following year when If Toscanini, slated for a guest per-f per-f formance with the Philadelphia Orchestra, was suddenly taken ill. Mr. Ormandy was invited as a replacement and he scored an overnight sensation. In the audience was a representative repre-sentative of the Minneapolis Or- |