Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After outdistancing his entourages in a fortnight's dashing about Italy, tireless Tourist Harry S. (for Swinomish) Truman raced on to Austria, where he was soon ensconced in the third row of a Salzburg concert hall. As Music Lover Truman watched approvingly, Conductor Bernhard Paumgartner struck up the band, then quickly stopped the music while guards kicked out a movie cameraman who had ignored a signal to go away from Truman territory. At a dinner that followed, the former President, never averse to giving hell even to the press when it nettles him, outspokenly applauded the maestro...
...touted. One was Lazar Berman, 26. whose performance in the eliminations got rave reviews ("a stormy and sometimes savage nature but with absolutely sensational qualities"). Berman practiced from 9 a.m. to midnight, with time out for meals, went to bed with bleeding fingertips. He thought he played his final concert "rather well. But I always feel I played less well than I could." The second, Vladimir Ashkenazy, 18, who "stupefied" a critic with his technique and profound insight and his colleagues by memorizing the Defossez in two days. Other front-runners in the final twelve were Denver-born John Browning...
Berlin concertgoers were showered with more American orchestral music last week than they had ever heard at once before, and found it a treatment, if not altogether a treat. The concert took place in the Music High School, with the West Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Louisville's Moritz Bombard. It was organized by the American Composers Alliance. The capacity audience, including a large contingent of East Berliners, went expecting a program of chaotic and jittery sound, heard instead some very agreeable and orderly music...
...matter what Berliners' reactions to individual compositions, the concert as a whole opened their ears to the variety of styles in U.S. composition. Wrote Der Tagesspiegel's Critic Werner Oehlmann: "The American music fascinates." Summed up Kurt Westphal in Der Kurier: "This concert offered us treatments which no one had any idea existed...
Died. Hortense Monath, 51, topflight concert pianist, program director and co-founder (in 1936) of Manhattan's famed New Friends of Music, first American woman pianist to solo with the NBC Symphony (1941); in Manhattan...