Word: concert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...technically perfect that "they no longer risk" experiments in contemporary idioms such as jazz ("I luff der jass"). He has been invited to the U.S. many times, has refused because he was expected to do a whole series of conventional programs ("the Tchaikovsky Pathétique on one concert and Beethoven's Fifth on the next"). Says he: "I do not have to conduct works I don't like. I will not conduct to order...
...Never in my whole life have I believed in God nor do I intend to start. I consider myself a true materialist. That never stopped me from visiting churches . . . splendid monuments of the past ... I have heard some very good concerts in various churches and still like to attend them . . . Handel, Bach and Beethoven are among the greatest composers. They will surely be played and loved even after nobody on earth believes in God any more ... A true materialist can certainly hear a good concert of classical music in a church without losing his materialist virginity...
Died. Eva Gauthier, 73, concert mezzo-soprano, niece of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canada's first French-Canadian Prime Minister; in Manhattan...
ALTHOUGH he spent most of his life in Germany, Lyonel Feininger framed and shaped his art in America. The son of a German concert violinist, Feininger was born and brought up in Manhattan. Among his earliest memories was that of seeing stripe-suited prisoners marching in lock step on Blackwells (now Welfare Island. "This made a wretched impression on me." he recalled. "I took to drawing ghosts for a while, and this may have laid the foundation for my fantastic figures and caricatures." When he was 16, Feininger went to Europe to study music. Soon he switched...
...spirit of the Master. Some like their Bach feathery and ice-edged; some like him broad and deliberate. The undisputed queen of the "broad" Bach school is Chicago-born Pianist Rosalyn Tureck, who for the past five years has been building an impressive reputation in Europe's concert halls (TIME, July 29, 1957). Last week the New York Philharmonic provided J.S.B.'s Manhattan fans with a rare treat: an all-Bach program at which Pianist Tureck appeared as the first female conductor in the orchestra's history of 5,890 regular concerts...