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Even in his disastrous New York period, Barbirolli made important contributions to music. Here he conducted several Britten premieres, including the Sinfonia da Requiem, and the Violin Concerto. Nonetheless, he could not control the orchestra as it needed to be controlled, and was left to return home, disheartened...
HAVING rehabilitated the Halle, Barbirolli set himself higher tasks. He rejuvenated the Salzburg Festival, which had lapsed during the war, and there he conducted the newly discovered Mozart Oboe Concerto, with his wife, Evelyn, as soloist. His career flourished as he was invited to serve as guest conductor of one of the finest orchestras on the continent, and in the United States he accepted the post of conductor of the Houston Symphony, in addition to his duties at Halle...
...Steinberg, music director of the Boston Symphony, fell ill midway through a visiting concert, also at Philharmonic Hall. Thomas, the orchestra's new assistant conductor and Steinberg's understudy, took over after intermission and handled Strauss's familiar Till Eulenspiegel and Robert Starer's new Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra with ease, poise and cool. Said the New York Times next day: "Mr. Thomas knows his business, and we shall be hearing from him again...
...that it took on a life of its own, and did things I did not want it to do, like the Sorcerer's Apprentice." No danger of that this time. The "Haffner" Symphony was a model of Mozart interpretation-clean, clear and crisp-and in Mozart's Concerto in C Major, K.503, Fleisher afforded Soloist Claude Frank the kind of knowing partnership that made it seem as if the two men were playing four-hand piano -which indeed they used to do, as brilliant pupils of the late Artur Schnabel...
Photographers swarmed around Mia Farrow as her glamorous André Previn conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Jack Benny played Mendelssohn over the phone. Still, Isaac Stern more than held his own at his 50th birthday celebration. His rendition of the Brahms violin concerto was the hit of a gala at the Hollywood Bowl. At supper afterward, his observations ranged from philosophy ("Music is more important than musicians. The music goes on and on. All we can do is serve it honestly") to a pun inspired by Ogden Nash ("I leave no tone unSterned...