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...would get tired of being second in the concert halls and would try harder to improve its instrument. The result is the piano that sounded so good that day at Town Hall: Baldwin's new model, SD-10. Guided by such consultants as Leonard Bernstein and Cincinnati Symphony Conductor Max Rudolf, Baldwin's experts worked for ten years revamping the instrument's inner parts to increase its reverberation and enhance its timbre. They altered the length, size and layout of the strings, redesigned the bridge, which transmits vibrations from the "speaking length" of the strings...
...their numbers. Prosperous, cosmopolitan, literate, they dominate today the business community of Bombay. Industrialist J.R.D. Tata, whose steel mills constitute India's largest privately owned enterprise, is a Parsi; so are General Sam Hormuzji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, one of India's top military leaders, and Zubin Mehta, conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Parsi girls for the last three years have won the title of Miss India...
...cellist was "exceptional," declared Boston Symphony Concertmaster Joseph Silverstein. The pianist played "as well as anybody need ever play," said Conductor Erich Leinsdorf. The soloists who won these praises from such rigorous judges were not big concert stars but virtually unknown American students: New York City's Stephen Kates, 23, and Los Angeles' Misha Dichter, 20, both fresh from winning silver medals at the Third International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow...
...Schubert Mass is itself a work which is long in the hearing and long in the understanding. It is big and loosely organized. What contributed most to conductor Schmidt's reading of the work was his complete control of balance among singers and players. At times, one began to lose track of the development and growth of themes but this could be entirely laid at the door of technical inadequacies on the part of the performers. In addition the repeated fugal entrances of the chorus in the Credo and Gloria were, through their overt pompousness, a built-in weakness...
...Psalms is always a treacherous adventure. Since it so often concentrates on developing a brief melody by very slight changes in the background harmony or by interchanging the chords backing up the melody, any subtlety of phrasing that is missed when the melody first appears becomes painfully magnified. Conductor Schmidt was most successful in evading this trap, leaving only the "Alleluia" motifs in the last movement a bit raw. A very strange circumstance about the performance was that the tiredness of chorus and conductor after wading through all that went before resulted in exactly the right amount of energy being...