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...Variaciones Concertantes of the Argentine composer, Alberto Ginastera. The latter involves solos from all sections of the orchestra including an extremely flashy violin variation played by Robert Portney '74. The rest of the orchestra's personnel includes members of the tennis, lacrosse, swimming and baseball teams, an ex-conductor of the Bach Society, the daughter of a world-famous harpsichordist, a former House Master, an oboist who does remarkable animal imitations, and, pound for pound, the greatest tympanist in the world. This unusual aggregation will be conducted by Martin Kessler '71, who was quoted as saying, "don't miss this...
...September 1968 when Pianist Daniel Barenboim was warned that he was going to be shot during a concert. The big attraction, however, was not murder; the oratorio was bringing together the professional talents of the recently married lovers Mia Farrow and Andre Previn, she as Joan, he as conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, the Ambrosian Opera Chorus and a children's choir. The critics were cool. "Though often touching," said the Daily Telegraph, Mia was "lightweight casting for a part that demands uninterrupted inner concentration and the vocal range of a great actress...
...brass quintet. His major effort so far is the Piano Concerto No. 1, a three-movement, 25-minute work that he performed brilliantly late last year before an enthusiastic audience in London's Royal Festival Hall. At Christmastime he recorded it for E.M.I, with the Royal Philharmonic under Conductor Lawrence Foster; Angel will be issuing it in the U.S. next fall...
...French Conductor Pierre Boulez, who takes over as music director of the New York Philharmonic next season, recently journeyed to the U.S. and announced various plans for revivifying the programs of the Philharmonic. Among them: the idea of snaring young listeners by taking members of the orchestra to Greenwich Village for four avant-garde evenings, to be called "Prospective Encounters...
...last I saw of the wreck the calf had devoured most of the old lady's pickles and peppermints, and had begun on her bonnet; and the conductor, Bill, and the fireman were asking how it happened, and laying the blame on each other. I returned North by another route...