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Charles Munch will direct an extra concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra this Sunday at 8:30 p.m. at Symphony Hall, bringing to a close the BSO's 75th season. The program will be Beethoven's Seventh Symphony and Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony, the "Pathetique." Tickets are now available at the box office. Proceeds will go towards the Symphony's summer tour of Europe...
There was a large banquet that evening honoring Monteux's 75th birthday. Having had experience with banquets for some 50 years, the Maitre decided we had better have a four-course dinner before leaving, be prepared, as it were, for the inevitable fruit cup, tasteless mashed potatoes and chicken, topped off by the usual melted ice. So we ordered an iced melon, sole au vin blanc, new potatoes, endive braised, Edam cheese and toasted crackers, fresh strawberry ice, and Vienna coffee with whipped cream. This is why we were late, why I am on a diet...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra will honor Walter H. Piston, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, by playing for the first time a new Piston symphony in the Orchestra's 75th anniversary concerts on Nov. 25 and 26. Piston was commissioned by the BSO to write his Symphony No. 6 especially for the anniversary concerts...
...only was it an upset--the Indians were figured as two-touchdown underdogs--but it marked the first Green victory in three home starts against the varsity, and provided appropriate recognition of Dartmouth's 75th football anniversary...
...Louvre's Museum of Decorative Arts honored Spanish-born Painter Pablo Picasso with a panoramic exhibition of his works, thus marked his 75th birthday and the 54th anniversary of his arrival in France. Picasso himself, waiting for the crowd to thin before going to his own show, holed up in his new Cannes villa with a mysterious new girl friend, fortyish, known as Madame Z. As a long line of limousines poured out specially invited guests on opening day, a grim little old lady, topped by a black straw hat cluttered with artificial flowers, showed up, herself looking like...