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Berkshire Festival (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). Serge Koussevitzky conducts Beethoven's Ninth (Choral) Symphony...
...Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 In B Flat (William Kapell, pianist, with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Golschmann conducting; Victor, 7 sides). A ragged, unsure playing of the least interesting of Beethoven's concertos. Recording: good...
Hedda's Weapons. With all these handicaps-and after all, Beethoven was deaf-Hedda has some wicked weapons, and knows how to use them. She can print what she does about Hollywood people because she knows still fancier stuff that the mails would not carry, and because her own private life is blackmail-proof. And she knows how to turn her most outrageous mistakes into a joke. To one "planter's" hurt question why she had reduced his exclusive scoop to one line, low in her column (it was one of her mistakes), she crowed: "Bitchery, baby, pure...
...Henry Moore's outsize figure of the Madonna & Child sat tranquil and serene. At the other hung Painter Graham Sutherland's agonized Christ on the Cross, bearing the sins and degradation of the world. Between them, in the center aisle, stood full-throated Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, singing Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner. The audience, warned not to applaud in the church, sat in pent-up enthusiasm which mounted from song to song, until at last, when Flagstad made her final bow, some 20 of her listeners jumped to their feet and silently bowed...
...biggest box-office draw of the summer has proved to be the second series, when all nine of Beethoven's symphonies and two of his piano concertos will be presented under Dr. Koussevitzky. The final series, like the first, includes works from Haydn to Hindemuth, with the Festival chorus under Robert Shaw, who last brought his talents before University audiences with his choir concert at the Music Symposium in May, directing one concert which is to feature the Mozart "Requiem...