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Eugene Indjic '69 has been invited by Eric Leinsdorf, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, to play Branms' Second Piano Concerto at the War Memorial Auditorium on February...
Indjic, who has studied plano for nine years, did not enter a contest for the once last years, and the conductor phoned indjic this week to invite him to be a soloist in the Washington's Birthday concert...
...Alain Lombard, 25, from Paris, was easily the most dashing. He commanded the podium like an admiral on the bridge, embracing the orchestra with grand sweeping gestures of his long arms. His attack was marked by an easy, graceful masculinity, at times almost overpowering in its intensity. Conductor of the Lyon State Opera since 1963, he is the most experienced of the four winners. One of the judges, Composer Gian Carlo Menotti, announced that he had invited Lombard to guest-conduct at the Spoleto Festival this summer, a bonus prize to be awarded on a regular basis to future winners...
...Painters paint on canvas," Conductor Leopold Stokowski once lectured an unruly audience. "We paint our tone pictures on silence. Only you can supply that...
...Berlin's Deutsche Oper and Conductor Hermann Scherchen have brought Moses and Aaron out of the wilderness. Last week the Deutsche Oper's 318-member traveling company performed it for the first time in Rome. The staging, obviously, was an unrealistic but no less gripping realization of Schoenberg's directions. The orgy scene was a stylized ballet danced against a crazy-quilt backdrop of emotionally escalating designs beamed from a dozen slide projectors. The tragic conflict between Moses-who, unable to articulate his spiritual vision, symbolically chants rather than sings his role-and the worldly, silver-tongued...