Word: concert
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...lined up one of the world's great voices for their opening concert--contralto Maureen Forrester will sing Mahler's Songs of a Wayfarer and a Mozart aria. Also on the program in this year of Ives, is Three Places in New England. And you won't want to pass up an opportunity to hear Ludwig van Beethoven's 5th Symphony in C minor...
...Skrowaczewski's opening program of Bach, Ives, Stravinsky and Beethoven made clear, the new hall also has remarkably even dispersion of sound (with slight exceptions in some of the side balcony areas), admirable balance and clarity, a striding bass and an exciting musical presence unsurpassed perhaps by any concert hall in the world. Skrowaczewski's readings tended to be very soft or very loud, as well as very fast or slow. At times the volume of the orchestra approached the painful-clearly the result of the conductor's understandable desire to show off the hall...
...Secret. Designing the acoustics in a modern concert hall is a difficult task, and results are not totally predictable. Avery Fisher (formerly Philharmonic) Hall in New York's Lincoln Center is the classic case of aural bad luck. Twelve years after its opening, it still has glum sound, despite millions of dollars spent in revisions. Two of its most distinguished visitors, the Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra, will pack up and move back to venerable Carnegie Hall next season...
Died. David Oistrakh, 66, Soviet violin genius; of a heart attack while on tour; in Amsterdam. Raised in the musical hothouse of Odessa's Jewish community, Wunderkind Oistrakh rose rapidly through the conservatories and concert halls of the Soviet Union. In the cold war November of 1955, Oistrakh's first Carnegie Hall recital melted American critics. A short (5 ft. 6 in.), pudgy, businesslike performer, Oistrakh produced music with a luminous, flawless tone. In his last years, he grew into a first-rank conductor as well. On hearing of Oistrakh's death, American Violinist Yehudi Menuhin...
Fromm Foundation Concert...