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...half is considered an interesting experiment in the ability of performers and listeners to keep up the kind of concentration needed to hear good music. The effort was great but the results were worth it to those who heard the concert given by the Harvard Summer School Chorus under conductor Harold Schmidt. On the program were the Schubert E Flat Mass, No. 6, madrigals by Schein, Morley, and Monteverdi, the Gabrielli In Eclesiis, Giuseppe Sarti's Fuga a otto voci reali, and Igor Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms...
...Unheard. More often, however, musical textures from silk to denim mingle as harmoniously as their motley adherents, thousands of whom are experiencing for the first time the special pleasures of music against a backdrop of lakes, trees and the glittering towers surrounding the park. As Municipal Concerts Conductor Julius Grossman says, "The more sophisticated and the less sophisticated are coming in. It's becoming the thing...
Counterattack. The first of the orchestra's 16 concerts in Peabody Auditorium attracted a glittering audience in formal dress, with a scattering of flowered sports shirts, slacks and sandals. Colin Davis, the brilliant 39-year-old British conductor, led off the all-British program with a rousing performance of Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, a kind of teaser course for the uninitiated, moved on to headier stuff by Vaughan Williams, Frederick Delius and William Walton. The orchestra more than lived up to its reputation as one of the world's finest ensembles...
Central Park simmered in the noonday heat as Conductor Leonard Bernstein stripped to his skivvy shirt and led the New York Philharmonic through an alfresco rehearsal. Next day Lennie bounded around the 15-acre field before the bandstand listening to the loudspeakers, at one point sent his eleven-year-old son scampering for an engineer when he found a dead spot. Lennie and the boys weren't the only ones willing to sweat for their music. The audience started arriving to stake out the best spots at 9 a.m. on the day of the concert, first in New York...
...most of the year President Johnson's advisers have worked full time muting the notion that drastic action might be necessary to head off serious national inflation. But last week, as if on cue from an unseen conductor, the Administration's tune changed. From White House aides, the Treasury and members of the Federal Reserve Board came warnings about the need for fiscal restraint in an economy that keeps on exuberantly expanding...