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...Conductor Walter Hendl, a judge in the piano competition, agreed that Sokolov was a true Wunderkind, but that Dichter had a more promising future as a soloist. Still, when the Russians broached the idea of dividing the first prize between Sokolov and Dichter, Hendl vetoed it on the grounds that dividing leading prizes weakened their impact. The jury voted, Sokolov won, and the crowd promptly went wild-for Dichter. Five hundred Russians who had stayed until 2 a.m. to hear the results, kept chanting "Bravo Dichter! Bravo Dichter!", and several women wept and pressed flowers into his outstretched hands...
...Conductor Pierre Boulez [June 24]: "A slightly puffy, balding man, Boulez looks more like a librarian than a revolutionary." We are all professional librarians in the employ of Time Inc. Not one of us is even "slightly puffy," much less "balding...
Fado is to Portugal what flamenco is to Spain, what the blues is to the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 7, 1964). Yet, unlike those widely exported musical forms, fado has been taken abroad successfully by only one singer: Amália Rodrigues. Last week, at the behest of Conductor Andre Kostelanetz, she made her U.S. concert debut with the New York Philharmonic as part of its summer Promenades series. Singing fado in the rich expanse of Philharmonic Hall-with the audience sitting at café tables sipping champagne and munching Fritos-seemed as out of place as singing spirituals...
...from being a grind, Daisy sings in a Lutheran church choir, takes lessons in both voice and piano. Her father, who died in 1964, was a composer, conductor and pianist. Her mother teaches piano, and her brother Walter topped his class at Columbia University in 1962. Mrs. Hilse says, not immodestly, that Daisy's scholarship "just comes naturally...
Died. Hermann Scherchen, 74, Berlin-born conductor known as an indefatigable champion of modern composers, introducing works by Schoenberg and Hindemith when they were unknowns, who scorned U.S. orchestras as timid traditionalists, rejecting invitations for 35 years until 1964, when his five-part concert in Manhattan proved stunningly worth waiting for; of a heart attack; in Florence...