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When Sir John Barbirolli came west to accept the baton of the Houston Symphony Orchestra three years ago, Texans proudly proclaimed "The Grand Alliance." An emblem was struck for the orchestra depicting the Lone Star flag shoulder-to-shoulder with Sir John's Union Jack, and by happy coincidence Harold Macmillan himself said what was on everyone's lips: "Friendship between Texas and Great Britain is a most important thing." The orchestra celebrated its 50th year last week with a gala concert on the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, and Sir John felt properly Nelsonian: "This...
...acquired the appurtenances of a modern U.S. metropolis, from big-league baseball and big-league football (the Houston Oilers. 1960 and 1961 champs of the American Football League) to a Museum of Fine Arts headed by James Johnson Sweeney, and a symphony orchestra whose current conductor is Sir John Barbirolli. But the city has not lost its frontier character. "There is freedom of movement here that I have not seen anywhere else," says a recent arrival. Says a Houston oil executive, aglow with civic pride:."This is the last frontier...
...Britons wheezing and snuffling through the midwinter vapors, Conductor Sir John Barbirolli, who plans to commute transatlantically between the Houston Symphony and the Hallé Orchestra of Manchester, prescribed his podium-tested cold cure: "Put on two pullovers. Stand on a chair. Turn the wireless onto a symphony concert and conduct like mad with a poker or pencil for an hour or so. The cold, I guarantee, will have vanished by the last movement." A comparative youngster in a profession noted for longevity, Sir John, 61, who is inclined to share his wisdom with everybody, freely explained the secret...
...opposite direction and pandering to the city's "roast beef appetite." Nevertheless, the city got a good financial return on Stokowski's reported $35,000 annual salary: ticket sales increased 86%. So far, no successor for Stokowski's job has been found; Sir John Barbirolli turned it down...
...beginning of the performance, Conductor Barbirolli turned to the audience and remarked that it was about to hear a "sublime masterpiece." Gerontius, as Barbirolli's sympathetic performance demonstrated, is considerably less than a masterpiece. But it is considerably more than the musical antique a generation of concertgoers has taken...