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ESTONIA IS NOT JUST a place mentioned in Russian history courses or by the East German rowing team. It is the birthplace of two first-rate musicians, one a conductor and the other a composer, who both conclude their premiers with the Boston Symphony Orchestra tomorrow...
Neeme Jarvi, conductor of the Estonian State Symphony Orchestra until his emigration to the United States last year, has exuberance and knowhow with German, Estonian and Russian music. One looks forward to hearing how he fares with the Mozart or Haydn symphonies after this program of Brahms' Academic Festival Overture, Eduard Tubin's Tenth Symphony and Dmitri Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony...
...conductor then remedied the situation with the use of his whole body--pointing, stepping, making faces--to conduct a brilliant conclusion. Silverstein played his solos in the first movement with almost arrogant projection, but subdued his slow lines in the allegretto to achieve an enrapturing equilibrium with the rest of the orchestra...
These students were not the only American Uspensky met. In the fall of 1959, the New York Philharmonic, under Leonard Bernstein, came to Russia for the American Exhibition in Moscow. A cousin of Bernstein's knew Uspensky and when the conductor mentioned that he wanted to meet someone not connected with officialdom, a meeting between the two men was arranged. During their discussions, Uspensky spoke freely about the place of art and literature in Soviet society and about other things which the Soviet government did not wish known. Ironically, a KGB official repeated these conversations to Uspensky nearly verbatim...
...bitter, windswept night, crowds gathered in Boston to see the city's Christmas tree lighted. Then, as a glow enveloped the 55-ft. spruce, Boston Pops Conductor John Williams led a choir of 500 boys and girls from local schools in Silent Night as 10,000 Bostonians sang along. In Chicago 2,300 amateurs filled Orchestra Hall to overflowing for the city's fifth annual sing-it-yourself production of Handel's Messiah. Jeane Moore, a Montana housewife, flew 1,600 miles from Kalispell just to sing in Chicago after seeing the concert last year on television...