Word: concertgebouw
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...reshaped. Two-foot-deep "reflector box" constructed around stage apron. Air-conditioning units are muffled. Total cost: $335,000. Critics say echoes persist and bass has developed thudding sound. Consensus is that sound is warmer, but still nothing approaching that of Vienna's Grosser Musikvereinssaal, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw or Boston's Symphony Hall-all built before acoustics became a science...
London Records was the first to exhume a number of its buried treasures, reissuing under the Richmond label such gems as George Szell conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Brahms's Third Symphony and the Mozart Requiem conducted by Josef Krips at the bargain-basement price of just $1.98 per record (formerly $4.98). Sales were brisk, so London reissued ten operas, including Renata Tebaldi in La Boheme and Madama Butterfly. Mercury followed London's lead, establishing its Wing label, featuring such surefire favorites as suites from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker and Swan Lake ($1.98 for mono...
...LIED VON DER ERDE (Deutsche Grammophon) is Gustav Mahler's masterpiece. The song cycle is a rippling reflection of elegiac Chinese moods that now and then surges up to a torrential "Yes!" This version, with Mezzo Soprano Nan Merriman, Tenor Ernst Hafliger and Conductor Eugen Jochum leading the Concertgebouw Orchestra, even surpasses the excellent recording made by Merriman and Hafliger with the Concertgebouw sev en years...
...Helsinki." The spectacle of Monk at large in Europe last week was cheerful evidence of his new fame?and evidence, too, of how far jazz has come from its Deep South beginnings. In Amsterdam, Monk and his men were greeted by a sellout crowd of 2,000 in the Concertgebouw, and their DÜsseldorf audience was so responsive that Monk gave the Germans his highest blessing: "These cats are with it!" The Swedes were even more hip; Monk played to a Stockholm audience that applauded some of his compositions on the first few bars, as if he were Frank Sinatra...
Nostalgic Pie. News of the Nijmegen recital drew a flurry of editorials in West German papers, and the program handed out in the town's Concertgebouw contained letters from German Baritone Die trich Fischer-Dieskau and Berlin Phil harmonic Manager Wolfgang Stresemann: all said that no civilized German could fail to understand Rubinstein's feelings...