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Comic-Strip Shaw. For 23 years on the Tribune, Cassidy not only criticized the cultural world of Chicago; to a large extent, she ran it. She helped persuade Conductor Fritz Reiner to take over the Chicago Symphony (1953-62), and she helped build up the estimable Chicago Lyric Opera. When she liked something -or someone-she lavished compliments. She was one of the first to praise and promote Tennessee Williams. Reviewing the 1944 world premiere of The Glass Menagerie, she wrote: "It is honest, tender, tough and brilliant...
ANNA MOFFO/LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI (RCA Victor). Miss Moffo sings Brazilian Com poser-Conductor Heitor Villa-Lobos' wanton Bachianas Brasileiras in a way that would excite Bach or any gypsy. Her voice has both richness and fluidity; her mood shifts with the song like quicksilver. In Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne, she settles unfortunately into simpering sentimentality, which is not relieved by Stokowski's painfully slow pace...
Working under Division Boss William Hewitt Phillips, whom Kraft credits as the man most responsible for his development as an aeronautical engineer and flight-test conductor, his first project was to help build a quarter-scale model of the X-1 to be dropped from a B-29 at 35,000 ft. to determine its ability to withstand the stresses of breaking the sound barrier. Rigged with sensitive instruments, the model measured and relayed the effects of near Mach 1 to engineers huddled in a couple of old trailers−one of the first uses of the telemetry that...
Paul Althouse, a graduate student in Music History at Yale, is assistant conductor and chorus master; the chorus will be accompanied by Marion Ruhl, assistant University organist...
...Benjamin Britten's entrancing Symphony for Cello and Orchestra. The work is one of three that Britten has composed for the cellist since they became fast friends five years ago. At concert's end, the audience was ecstatic. And so was Rostropovich, alternately applauding the audience, Conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, the London Symphony and Britten, who was sitting in a box with Leonard Bernstein. At the insistence of the audience, Britten left his box to conduct an encore...