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...When Conductor Istvan Kertesz was taken ill prior to a concert by the London Symphony Orchestra last week, the management asked Composer Oliver Knussen if he would lead the prèmiere of his Symphony...
...recalled that two other members of his family have been on the cover of TIME: Uncle Albert Schweitzer, the legendary missionary (TIME, JULY 11, 1943), and Symphony Conductor Charles Munch ( Dec 19, 1949), who is his mother's brother...
...glance at the two girls with their dribbly double butterscotch icecream cones, and the San Francisco cable-car conductor decided that such delights were not for him. "Ladies," said he sternly, "you've got to get off if you don't throw away your ice-cream cones." Since Frisco's conductors are nothing if not captains of their cars, a chastened Lynda Bird Robb, Husband Chuck and their official San Francisco hostess meekly stepped off the Russian Hill clang-along to hoof it a while on their sightseeing trip...
...commissioned work-even of a well-known composer-does not please the patron. But usually in such a case, the less said about it, the better; the patron either grits his teeth and holds a performance anyway, or he quietly shelves the work. Last week New Orleans Philharmonic Symphony Conductor Werner Torkanowsky broke this protocol by talking for the record about a commissioned work that he had rejected. And what made the case even more striking was the eminence of the composer: Darius Milhaud, 75, durable veteran of the historic Les Six group of French composers in the 1920s...
Milhaud had delivered Music for New Orleans, a 30-minute orchestral piece commissioned for last week's symphony concert in honor of the city's 250th anniversary. After studying it and rehearsing it, Conductor Torkanowsky pronounced it "a disappointment" and substituted Milhaud's 1923 composition...