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...those rare events in which first class artists, with apparently sufficient rehearsal time, conspire to perform a program of substantial modern music that deserves their skills. Directed by Leon Kirchner, musicians from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and from Harvard gave the first Boston performance of Kirchner's Concerto for Violin, Cello, 10 Winds, and Percussion, and a concert reading of Stravinsky's ballet, Les Noces...
Still, very little of his work found its way into the standard orchestral repertory. Even such masterpieces as the opera Mathis der Maler, the Philharmonic Concerto, the symphony Harmonie der Welt, and the requiem are rarely heard. Though his music is easily accessible to modern audiences, it is admired mainly by musicians, who hear in it the evidence of a lofty musicianship that is not often encountered in modern composers...
...first and third Friday of each month, he would switch on his radio and slip open his code book. All he really had to know was a little classical music. If the mes sage was preceded by excerpts from Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto, it was genuine; if it began with parts of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, Georgiev knew the message was a ruse designed to foil would-be counterspies. For a while, Georgiev played Name That Tune like an expert. Then, in September, he was somehow nabbed by Bulgarian police, and his seven-year career...
Guest soloist will be the renowned pianist Katja Andy, who will play Bartok's last work, the Piano Concerto No.3...
Michael A. Flaksman '67 has been named one of the winners of an international concerto competition conducted by the New York Philharmonic...