Born Jeno Blau, he entered the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest in 1904, when he was 5 years old.  After coming to America in 1921, he became concertmaster of New York's Capitol Theater Orchestra, and went on to serve as music director of the Minneapolis Symphony before be
Born Jeno Blau, he entered the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest in 1904, when he was 5 years old.  After coming to America in 1921, he became concertmaster of New York's Capitol Theater Orchestra, and went on to serve as music director of the Minneapolis Symphony before becoming engaged, along with Stokowski, as associate conductor of the orchestra with which he would spend 42 seasons as music director.  FTP, name this conductor, who led the first American orchestra to appear in the People's Republic of China when he took the Philadelphia Orchestra there.
Born Jeno Blau, he entered the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest in 1904, when he was 5 years old.  
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