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Sunday, July 20 SOUNDS OF SUMMER (NET, 8-10 p.m.). Arthur Fiedler conducts the Boston Pops in a George Gershwin concert, including An American in Paris, Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra (with Pianist Earl Wild) and selections from Porgy and Bess...
...occasion was the world premiere of a 20-minute Concerto for Solo Percussion and Orchestra. If the event had a distinctly Japanese flavor, that was understandable. The star of the evening was Solo Percussionist Stomu Yamash'ta, 22, who took on all 47 instruments, and the conductor was Seiji Ozawa. Even Composer Heuwell Tircuit had an Oriental background; now a music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, he spent eight years as a percussionist with Japanese orchestras...
...twelve, he became timpanist with the Kyoto and Osaka orchestras two years later, studying ballet on the side. Soon after, Director Akira Kurosawa picked him to perform the score for the movie Yojimbo, and at 16 he made his first solo appearance, playing Milhaud's Percussion Concerto with the Osaka Philharmonic. He traveled to the U.S. in 1964 and won a scholarship to the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. Later on Yamash'ta founded his own jazz quintet in Boston...
Twelve hours a day for nearly two months, three groups of albino rats at a Texas Tech University laboratory were given some musical entertainment. One group of newborn rat pups was exposed to selections from Mozart-The Magic Flute, Symphonies 40 and 41, the Violin Concerto No. 5. A second group audited an equivalent daily dose of Arnold Schoenberg-Pierrot Lunaire, Verkldrte Nacht and Kol Nidre, among other compositions. The third set of rats, appointed as a control, heard nothing but the whirring of a ventilation...
...better than Brahms. Today he is one of the forgotten men of English music. The years have been equally hard on other romantics on the Butler program. Belgium's Henri Vieuxtemps was perhaps the greatest violinist of his day, but until Cellist Jascha Silberstein performed his Cello Concerto in A Minor, it had never been heard in the U.S. Sigismond Thalberg was Liszt's great rival at the keyboard and a composer of considerable skill. Yet his lively fantasy on The Barber of Seville, exuberantly played at Butler by Pianist Raymond Lewenthal, is now a rarity...