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...medium: the trio for piano, violin, and 'cello (played, respectively, on this occasion by Bruce Simonds. Robert Brink, and Karl Zeise). The two works: Beethoven's Trio in B-Flat Major ("Archduke"), Op. 97, and Brahms' Trio in B Major, Op. 8--though Brahms' two later contributions to the medium press them hard...
...herself in the wings to minister to Renata with a Thermos jug of warm tea and an emergency flask of brandy when she came offstage. She was quick to resent any affronts to her daughter. Backstage lore has it that she once berated a tenor for holding the high B-flat in the love duet at the end of the second act of Andrea Chenier an instant longer than Renata did. Before every performance she used to join Renata in her dressing room for a few moments of prayer...
Also on the program were Mozart's Fantasia in F-minor, K. 608; and Handel's Concerto No. 2 in B-flat, in which Biggs failed to interpret properly the "French style" of the first movement. The best playing of the evening came in the sole modern work. Litanies, by Jehan Alain, tragically killed at 29 during the second World...
...Festival's final evening featured a concert of two works "written for the out-of-doors," played by members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Richard Burgin. On the Festival stage 13 wind-players performed Mozart's Serenade in B-flat (K. 361). The performance went fairly well, but showed several signs of insufficient rehearsal (in the first minuet, the bassoonist even played his entire solo one bar ahead of everyone else...
Victor Borge: To be excruciatingly funny, Pianist-Comic Victor Borge needs only to munch a sticky peanut-butter sandwich, or hunt for a B-flat for the score he is pirating from the great composers. For this season's one-night stand on CBS, the theater's longest-run one-man show (849 performances on Broadway) shared his whopping $200,000 fee with an orchestra and guest stars. But the evening was mostly comedy, and, comic or serious, it was all Borge...