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...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, James Yannatos, Conductor; with Maureen Forrester, contralto. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Ives: Three Places in New England, Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer, Mozart: Non Piu di Flore. Nov. 8 at 8:30. Admission...
Great Performances--Music. Herbert von Karajan, acclaimed "the most powerful musician in Europe," conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Von Karajan was the conductor for Deutsche Grammophone's famous collection of Beethoven's symphonies. Ch. 2, 9 p.m., 1 hour...
...Conn., the nation's musical forces are giving Ives' music the kind of extensive exposure it never had during his lifetime. In Florida, the University of Miami is sponsoring a seven-month celebration, during which 35 musical organizations intend to perform all of Ives' published works. Conductor Pierre Boulez and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center have devoted a week to an Ives festival. Yale University and Brooklyn College concluded a joint Charles Ives Centennial Festival-Conference last week...
...capacity crowd of 2,573 discovered that the new $10 million Orchestra Hall is a winner, with truly superior sound. The term for the way in which a stage projects sound into an auditorium is "throw." Orchestra Hall has a throw that even Tom Seaver might envy. As Conductor Stanislaw Skrowaczewski's opening program of Bach, Ives, Stravinsky and Beethoven made clear, the new hall also has remarkably even dispersion of sound (with slight exceptions in some of the side balcony areas), admirable balance and clarity, a striding bass and an exciting musical presence unsurpassed perhaps by any concert...
...halls of the Soviet Union. In the cold war November of 1955, Oistrakh's first Carnegie Hall recital melted American critics. A short (5 ft. 6 in.), pudgy, businesslike performer, Oistrakh produced music with a luminous, flawless tone. In his last years, he grew into a first-rank conductor as well. On hearing of Oistrakh's death, American Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, a close friend, lamented the loss of "a wonderful man ... a sort of friendship bridge among countries all over the world...