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...Boyd Britten, Administrative Vice-President of Radcliffe, yesterday denied that the college has violated the contract. "We've done the humane thing in finding jobs for these men," he said...
PETER PEARS AND JULIAN BREAM: MUSIC FOR THE GUITAR (RCA Victor). Though the singers and the composers (Britten, Walton) are 20th century, this disk takes the listener right into an 18th century salon. Pears's technique is faultless, his singing elegant...
Highlight of the concert was Benjamin Britten's entrancing Symphony for Cello and Orchestra. The work is one of three that Britten has composed for the cellist since they became fast friends five years ago. At concert's end, the audience was ecstatic. And so was Rostropovich, alternately applauding the audience, Conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, the London Symphony and Britten, who was sitting in a box with Leonard Bernstein. At the insistence of the audience, Britten left his box to conduct an encore...
Rostropovich is also an accomplished pianist; between his heavy schedule of appearances this summer, he accompanied his wife, Bolshoi Opera Soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, at several recitals throughout England. Leaving London last week, Rostropovich explained that he was off for a month-long holiday in Armenia with his wife and Britten. "It's my first vacation in ten years," he said. Even an iron man is entitled to that...
...July 4), near Tours, uses as an auditorium a massive barn built by monks in 1220. The excellent acoustics of the barn's oak and chestnut structure will set off performances by Russian Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, Moscow's Borodin Quartet, and London's Royal Opera singing Britten's Curlew River...