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Show Leaderlese Orchestras. - There must be' no despotism of leadership, lead-ership, not even. In art, la the decree of the Soviets. So In Moscow they have concerts given by orchestras without" conductors. The soviet papers insist that the performances were Just as good; and, what Is more, the dignity of the performers was safeguarded by the absence of the conductor, with his baton, a symbol of tyranny, Intolerable . to free men. The soviet press adds that these performances per-formances constitute the musical as ' well as the political Ideal. |