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What matters more than the number of speakers, of course, is what comes out of them. Says Luigi Dallapiccola, the patriarch of the Italian twelve-tone school: "They already have vast technique. What they lack is ideas. Technical equipment is not important. When Beethoven wrote his piano sonatas, he anticipated the Steinway piano." Certainly the public still seems to appreciate the human touch. The biggest personal hit at Venice was U.S. Composer William Smith, a member of the original Dave Brubeck Octet. While his eight-minute electronic Improvisation, replete with amplified clarinet key clicks, breath noises, and echo chamber effects...
...productions before British audiences that he was once said to be out-of-pocket by a million pounds ("When I heard it," said Sir Thomas, "I fainted and had to be revived with brandy"). Almost singlehanded, he forced British orchestras away from their slavish loyalty to the Germanic tradition (Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner), won recognition for native composers (Williams, Delius), and introduced such composers as Dvorak, Smetana and Strauss to British concert halls. Perhaps no other conductor of his time performed Mozart with comparable fluency and grace, and few could equal him in his communion with those other 18th century masters...
PIANO RECITAL by Gordon S. Myers will include works by Bach, Beethoven, Ben Weber, Bohubert and Schumann. Kirkland House Junior Common Room, 3:00 p.m. Free...
...Negroes have mounted the podiums of major U.S. orchestras.* Last week, one did. Henry Lewis, 28, a bass player for ten years with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, was filling in for ailing Igor Markevitch, led a topnotch, widely acclaimed concert that included Dvorak's Fourth Symphony and Beethoven's concert aria Ah Perfido!, sung by Lewis' wife, Soprano Marilyn Home. Vigorous, sweeping Conductor Lewis had previously led the Seventh Army Orchestra and the Los Angeles String Society, a group he formed himself in 1958, will conduct several other Philharmonic concerts. Said he last week...
...Opera (NBC, 3-5 p.m.). A reprise of the fine network-commissioned English version of Beethoven's Fidelia. Color...