Summer Music

Hot nights bring good music in cool places to U. S. cities. By this week the season was fairly launched:

P:In Manhattan, Pianist-Conductor Jose Iturbi opened the Lewisohn Stadium season with a meticulous rendering of Beethoven's Egmont overture. As usual, old Adolph Lewisohn, who built the Stadium, made a sweet, fumbling speech in which he announced that, besides Iturbi, Willem van Hoogstraten and Eugene Ormandy would lead the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. When Mayor LaGuardia made a speech Communist hecklers who had been waiting since late afternoon in the 25-c- seats chorused: "Yellow dog La-Guardia! Yellow dog LaGuardia!" Three nights later the Stadium offered a novelty --the first of eight pairs of operas, with scenery and Metropolitan singers. Contralto Margaret Matzenauer as Saint-Saens' Dalila gesticulated as if she were suspended from invisible gymnasium rings, sang in a pleasantly intimate voice. Tenor Paul Althouse was Samson. Conducting was Russian-born Alexander Smallens of the Philadelphia Orchestra, who between acts bathed in a tin tub he brought with him.

P:In Philadelphia the Orchestra begins its Robin Hood Dell concerts, with operas two nights a week under Alexander Smallens, who will commute between that city and New York.

P:St. Louis, where for four years the Shuberts have had a hand in producing light operas, heard Sweet Adeline as its first-of-the-season last month.

P:In Cincinnati, Nippert Stadium opened with the first of a series of operas and concerts.

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