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BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Sounds and Sights of Chicago": a musical tour of the Windy City with Conductor Jean Martinon and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Junior Wells and his Chicago Blues Band, Ralph Shapey and the Contemporary Chamber Players, Folk Singer Jo Mapes and the Chicago Lyric Opera Ballet...
LEON Kirchner is the Renaissance man of the Music Department. Pianist, teacher, composer, conductor, he seems to be in constant metamorphosis. As contemporary composer, Kirchner has been awarded a Pulitzer prize for a work that combines sounds produced electronically with those of a string quartet; as teacher of courses for music concentrators, he is tireless in his efforts to spread the gospel according to Schoenberg. Yet Friday night there he was, conducting the Cantata Singers and an ensemble of Boston-area professionals in a program consisting solely of music by J. S. Bach...
...conductor was as capable of holding his ensemble back as bringing them out. The tenor aria in "Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht" (BWV 105) contains many rapid sixteenth-note passages in the instrumental parts. Tenor Karl Dan Sorensen displayed a voice that was light, supple and unforced, but nonetheless somewhat diminutive--potentially something of a problem in Sanders Theatre. But Kirchner kept the instrumentalists down to a virtuosic pianissimo, and in spite of the busyness of the parts and his own brisk tempo, the aria was a model of balance and clarity...
...what the music world calls the Great Conductor Hunt, one of the choicest quarries has been shaggy-haired Seiji Ozawa, 32, conductor of the Toronto Symphony. He is gifted enough to have been considered a prospect for two of the nation's top orchestras, New York and Chicago (TIME, Jan. 19). Last week the San Francisco Symphony announced that it had bagged Ozawa for itself, starting in the fall of 1970. Retiring Viennese Conductor Josef Krips, 65, who in the past five years has rebuilt San Francisco into one of the nation's solid second-rank ensembles...
Despite a few grumbles from musicians getting used to the new hall, a black-tie audience at the inaugural concert found the setting pleasing enough. Composer Gunther Schuller conducted his new Fanfare for St. Louis to start things out in properly noisy fashion, and Conductor de Carvalho (who relinquishes his post at the end of the season to Czech-born Conductor Walter Susskind) made further agreeable noise with Benjamin Britten's The Building of the House and Stravinsky's Petrouchka. Some complained that the acoustics were somewhat plushy and over-resonant but at any rate preferable...