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...insisting, however, that he was "no believer?till I see for myself." The work is wildly dramatic, the bold musical motives deriving partly from the sounds of the ancient Church Slavonic language ("Glagolitic" is the name given to its written form). From the first brassy fanfare, Czech Conductor Rafael Kubelik leads the Bavarian Radio Orchestra and Chorus in a rousing performance, with brilliant singing by Soprano Evelyn Lear and Tenor Ernst Haefliger...
...Conductor Leopold Stokowski hushed the audience in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. "Tonight," he said, "we are honoring one of America's greatest artists ..." From the back of the hall came a shattering sneeze. "That," cracked Stokowski, "is not part of the score." It easily could have been...
...occasion was the world première of Charles Ives's Fourth Symphony, and if not with sneezes, the score was alive with musical snorts and snickers, hiccups and heehaws. It was one of the most difficult symphonies ever played -more, in fact, than any one conductor could handle. To help referee such rowdy goings-on as 27 different rhythms being played at the same time, Stokowski stationed auxiliary conductors in the string and percussion sections. Miraculously, they shaped all the disparate elements into a musical experience of rare delight. The Fourth Symphony was a masterpiece, another great work...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will conclude its season at 8:30 p.m. tonight with a concert in Sanders Theatre. The program will include works by Mahler, Mozart, and Verdi, and the world premiere of conductor James D. Yannatos's Prieres dans l'arche, Chloe Owen, soprano, will be the soloist in the Mahler and Yannatos works...
Princess Radziwill arrived in a long, lime-green silk crepe by Yves St. Laurent, edged with gold. Mrs. Kennedy's guest list had plenty of show business: Conductor Leonard Bernstein, Movie Producer Sam Spiegel and Broadway's Mike Nichols, Sybil Burton and Arlene Francis, plus Economist J. Kenneth Galbraith and Politicians Robert F. Kennedy, Pierre Salinger and Franklin D. Roosevelt...