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...Improvisation Chamber Ensemble, appeared at Carnegie Hall last week with the visiting Philadelphia Orchestra to display their technique in somewhat elaborated form. Their scheduled piece, certainly the oddest they have yet attempted, was titled Concerto for Improvising Solo Instruments and Orchestra. Pianist Foss and his men-flute, cello, clarinet and percussion-were ranged downstage in front of the orchestra, and Conductor Eugene Ormandy only rarely cast a nervous backward glance at them...
...EVENING CONCERT--Donovan-New England Chronicle; Schumann-Sonata no. 1; Mozart-Clarinet Concerto in A, K. 622; Handel-Concerto Grosso Opus; 6 No. 10; Prokoviev-Sinfonietta...
...HENRY CABOT LODGE, whose agile baritone voice often livens U.N. parties, displayed the most catholicity of taste by selecting Mozart's Clarinet Quintet K. 581, Handel's Messiah, Alexander's Ragtime Band, St. James Infirmary, and other Dixieland tunes as played by the Dukes of Dixieland. For good measure, Mrs. Lodge added her own preference, which is a long way from Whoopie I Oh!: Bach's Suite No. 3 in C Major for Unaccompanied Cello, performed by Pablo Casals...
...people they look at are saying. How many persons would attend stage productions if the performers just mouthed their lines while others read them over loudspeakers from the wings? How many would fill a concert hall to hear a late string quartet of Beethoven played by two oboes, a clarinet, and a bassoon? Why single out the cinema for such artistic schizophrenia? At best, the cinema--I guess it needs to be repeated--is a great art-form, and it deserves to be treated accordingly...
Davis started his musical career playing clarinet in the school band near home in Weybridge, Surrey. Later he played in the band of the Household Cavalry, soon knew he wanted to be a conductor: "I suppose you can only compare it with a religious conversion. Suddenly the spirit reveals itself to you; suddenly you understand what music is all about." The "nearest thing to professional training" that Clarinetist Davis got was the opportunity to play under, and observe, Conductor Fritz Busch as a member of the Glyndebourne Orchestra. Davis then led a number of small instrumental and singing groups...