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After leading the Israel Philharmonic through a performance of Beethoven's "Eroica," visiting Conductor Leonard Bernstein exclaimed "I love her!" and clasped Golda Meir in an embrace that nearly knocked the Premier off her feet. "Not even Jacqueline got one like that," noted one Israeli. Mrs. Meir, 71, giggled and wore a wide grin for the rest of the evening...
...Mozart's Complete Symphonies (7 disks; Vol. II, Symphonies 25-41; $31.50; Deutsche Grammophon). Sleek and occasionally lacking in subtlety, Böhm's second half of the complete Mozart symphonies (the rest are scheduled for release in May) can be bettered on individual recordings by conductors like Szell, Davis or Walter. But apart from Böhm, the only first-rank conductor to produce a marathon Mozart is Erich Leinsdorf, whose performance of the symphonies (Westminster, 1967) is badly handicapped by a brassy, unresonant recording. By contrast DGG's sound is sumptuous. Though...
After receiving his A. M. degree from Harvard in 1947, Forbes taught music at Princeton for 11 years. In 1958, he succeeded G. Wallace Woodsworth, who died last year, as conductor of the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society...
Forbes said his decision to retire as conductor was prompted by the willingness of F. John Adams, conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus, to take over the post...
...organization is completely voluntary. Only two of the members are music concentrators, the rest being of every field from Biochemistry to Classics. Although heavily committed to their own fields, members are willing to put in about 30 hours of rehearsal for each concert-five concerts per year. Dr. Yannatos, conductor of the orchestra, says, "One never knows' music unless one has a physical involvement with it." It is the desire to become completely involved with music, to perform music well, that enables people of such diverse backgrounds and interests to work harmoniously together...