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Hector Berlioz was 35 at the time of the gift he thus described in his memoirs; Nicolò Paganini was 56, a cancer-ridden invalid no longer bewitching the public with his Guarnerius. But to Paganini, "Beethoven had at last a successor" in Berlioz, and the gift was an invitation to "write more divine compositions." Berlioz obliged with one of his most stunning works-the long "Dramatic Symphony," Romeo and Juliet. Last week the New York Philharmonic and the Juilliard Chorus under Guest Conductor Alfred Wallenstein gave the symphony one of its rare complete performances...
Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic (CBS, 4-5:30 p.m.). Romantic music from Beethoven to Mahler...
Bernard Haitink, 31, will soon take over as one of two permanent conductors of Amsterdam's famed old Concertgebouw Orchestra. Haitink has guest-conducted widely throughout Europe, is best known for his coolly controlled readings of Beethoven and Bruckner. A childhood violin student at the Amsterdam Conservatory, Haitink "felt the need to have a broader instrument," studied conducting, was soon picked as assistant conductor of the Dutch Radio Philharmonic. In frequent guest stints with the Concertgebouw, Haitink has already replaced the light, silvery Eduard Van Beinum tone with a darker, deeper glow reminiscent of the way the orchestra sounded...
...permanent conductor of the Brussels Opera. In London and Paris guest appearances, he has been greeted as the most exciting new conductor to come along in years, and at least one critic found him, at 30, "the equal of the greatest." The Vandernoot repertory runs to "Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, Bartok and the Sacre du Printemps, but not the rest of Stravinsky." A late starter ("I admire people," says he, "who start shivering at the age of three when mother sings false"), Vandernoot first studied the flute, soon found himself slipping off into the woods to conduct an imaginary orchestra...
Bonn, complains one longtime German diplomat, is "not a capital but a form of capital punishment." A guidebook once described the foggy little university town (1946 pop. 94,694), the birthplace of Beethoven, as "a favorite resting place for retired officials in the evening of their lives." Lacking first-line hotels, nightclubs and airport, it is often jeeringly called "the federal village." The streets are cobbled, narrow, picturesquely obstructed by vegetable markets and, at one conspicuous intersection, by a medieval gate that funnels all traffic into a single lane. The main rail line between Cologne and Koblenz runs smack through...