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Forbes said yesterday that Bernstein had agreed to lead the orchestra when conductor William Steinberg tell ill. In order to do so. Bernstein had cancelled an Eliot House dinner in his honor. To make up for his absence, he arranged the "Special Preview Concert for the Harvard Community." Forbes said...
...name of one composer was on everybody's lips last week in Berlin. So were words like Wunderkind. After all, hadn't he matured faster than Mozart? It was said that his talents as pianist and conductor were beyond those of any of his contemporaries. On top of all that, he was evidently a likable, unpretentious man of the world, gifted in languages, poetry and science, a fit partner for any woman on the dance floor, and any man's match in the billiard room. Who was the man? Why, Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy...
...gifted amateur pianist, exploited their prodigy son. Instead, they created a world of tutors and home musicales in which Felix, his sisters Fanny and Rebecca and his brother Paul could grow at their own pace. Every other Sunday morning, Felix presided over a musical program at home-as conductor, pianist and master of ceremonies. He was also composer. Several of his operas, a dozen or so string symphonies, numerous concertos and cantatas were among the works thus premièred. Before he left knee breeches, in fact, Mendelssohn was a thoroughgoing musical...
SANDERS THEATER: Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, James Yannatos, conductor, and Phyllis Curtin, soprano, Sat., 8:30 p.m., reserved sents...
...loudspeakers. The effect was sometimes as intense and attention-riveting as listening to records through earphones; too often it was more a nightmarish stew of French horns sounding like tubas, trumpets like cornets, strings like wood saws. It did not help, of course, that Revenaugh had to surrender the conductor's usual command over tone and blending to the man at the sound console...