BIOGRAPHY OF MICHAEL TAUBE. Michael Taube was born in Lodz in 1892 of a family well known in musical circles. At the age of eight he received his first instruc- lion in violin from his father, following this up late with the flute, the cello and the pia- no. In 1910 he went to Leipzig to continue his studies and to devote himself to the piano and ce’lo. Under the famous piano teacher Teichmueller he attained great virtuosity as a pianist. In 1913 he settled in Cologne studying the piano under Dr. Neizel and composition under Prof. Straesser. After many years of concert performances at which he attained great success he resolved to devote himself to his great dream of beco- ming a conductor and to that end studied with Prof. Hermann Abendroth, one of the greatest European conductors. He rapidly made a name for himself as a conductor. When the Palestine Orchestra was founded in 1936, Taube was one of its first conductors and has constantly appeared with the Orchestra ever since. In the past season he conducted with great success a number of concerts for the Orchestra, also appearing as a solo pianist. BIOGRAPHY OF C.B. MacNAIR. Crawford Mac Nair was born in 1904 and stu- died at the Royal College of Music, London and at Oxford. A pupil of the eminent English conductor, Dr. Malcolm Sargent, Mr. Mac Nair joined the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1934 as a Staff Conductor. He came to Pa- lestine in 1937 and is now the Director of Programmes of the Palestine Broadcasting Ser- vice and its first conductor. In this capacity he has done much for music in the country. He conducted several series of concerts of the Palestine Orchestra in the last two years with the greatest success. This will be the first time the Palestine Or- chestra will play under the baton of an En- gliish conductor in Egypt. It is interesting that Mr. MacNair is a certified pilot, obviously the only-one among the well-known conductors.
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