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...first U.S. orchestra to visit Russia in six years, the Clevelanders were feted and fawned upon. In Moscow, at the opening of the five-week tour, the audience summoned Conductor George Szell back for 20 curtain calls and four encores, rhythmically clapping and chanting "Glory! . . . bravo! . . thanks!" They relented only when Szell ordered his 107 musicians off the stage...
DEBUSSY: PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE (London; 3 LPs). Ernest Ansermet, conductor of 1'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, deftly evokes visions of the Poe-like castle and moon-bright grotto of Debussy's poetic opera. Musically light-textured, the opera is philosophically dark: early death is the destiny of the young lovers, appealingly sung by Dutch Soprano Erna Spoorenberg and French Tenor Camille Maurane...
...rock 'n' roll can boast a host of singers who can actually sing. The music, once limited to four chords, is now more sophisticated, replete with counterrhythms, advanced harmonics, and multivoiced choirs. Rock recordings, says Jazz Critic Ralph Gleason, "are a lot more interesting than the average jazz release." Conductor Leonard Bernstein likes the Beatles and does not hesitate to admit it: "They are very intelligent, and they have made songs which are really worthwhile. Love Me Do is really stirring and very reminiscent in some ways of Hindu music...
...next performed the world premiere of conductor James Yannatos' Prieres dans L'Arche, a setting of four poems by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold, scored for a small orchestra and soprano. In each poem an animal characterizes himself in a prayer ending with "Ainsi soit-il." Yannatos does not portray the animals, but the attitudes they represent. The animals' feelings are summarized by their way of saying amen, and the score provides the interpretation which the printed page leaves to the reader. For instance, the cat, aided by a marvellously meowing orchestra, says amen in smug anticipation of God's curse...
...enthusiastic reception which the audience gave the orchestra was rivalled only by the HRO's obvious adoration of its new conductor. If it is this rapport which has brought the orchestra to its present level of accomplishment, then no one should miss a concert as long as the HRO is led by Dr. Yannatos...