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...some posters and contracted an orchestra for the coming dance. The remaining work will be done by the ticket committee, Richard A. Jones, Chairman; the refreshments committee, Eugene P. Heytow, Chairman; the legal committee, Robert Wrong, Chairman; the financial committee, Leonard B. Shulman, Chairman; and the publicity committee, Fritz Bach, Chairman...
Last week's program started off with Trio for flute, viola and cello by 20th Century French Composer Albert Roussel, continued with a Bach sonata for the solo flute, and finished with English Composer William Walton's Facade, scored for seven instruments and a poetry reciter (Actress Jane Wyatt reading Edith Sitwell). The program noted with pride that Facade (composed in 1922) was getting its Los Angeles premiere...
...hundred years ago . . . The first quality demanded of a composer is that he must be dead." ¶ "We all know that a man who is exposed to strong light for a certain length of time becomes blind. Our existence is a constant exposure to noise . . . The noise may be Bach's B-Minor Mass or just a bunch of accordions. The same noise, you find it in the streets, in cafes, in restaurants, even in taxicabs. Imagine a man who has heard the same Beethoven symphony maybe six times a day in this fashion. Do you expect...
...grown-up beginners (oldest: 60) who think they have missed something along the way, and a few advanced students too. Latest Gabriel enterprise: a series of Saturday morning radio shows this fall, on Manhattan's city-owned WNYC, aimed at youngsters and featuring standard study pieces from Mozart, Bach and Clementi, played as the composers intended them. Says Gabriel: "After that, the music won't sound so much like exercises...
...York Philharmonic-Symphony is used to being called one of the "great" orchestras of the world-whether it chooses to play Bach, Beethoven or Bartok. The British verdict on the Philharmonic last week, after two Edinburgh Festival performances: good, with reservations...