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...great outdoors does things to people. Stuffy board chairmen, foggy professors, bleary barflies are all likely to step out of character under a wide and starry sky. Musicians, too. On the podium of Boston's austere Symphony Hall, Conductor Erich Leinsdorf, for instance, is as musically adventurous as a metronome. But amid the shadowed lawns and towering pinewoods of Tanglewood at Lenox, Mass., where the Berkshire Music Festival has been held for 27 summers, Leinsdorf the precisionist gives way to a gay experimenter...
...Tanglewood shed under the maestro's baton; Two and Three were on the shed floor at either side of the stage; Four ended up nearly out of sight under a canopy normally used by the audience to walk from the parking lot to the shed. Four's conductor, English Horn Player Louis Speyer, had a closed-circuit TV screen in front of him to show him Conductor Leinsdorf, and earphones, which gave him the beat of the other orchestras...
STRAVINSKY: VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MAJOR (Philips). A rare and rewarding encounter between the neoclassicist Stravinsky and the romantic David Oistrakh. Oistrakh gaily sets off short rhythmic explosions in the Toccata and Capriccio and then lets the melodies pour out in the two calm stretches called arias. Conductor Bernard Haitink and the Lamoureux Orchestra are also attuned to every instantaneous change in the musical weather...
...Birthday" and share his 90th cake with 20 great-grandchildren. "It's a lucky thing I had the horse bug," confided the man who trained Gallant Fox and Omaha, Nashua and Bold Ruler, recalling the days when his mother-in-law wanted him to work as a streetcar conductor. "I was sending home more money from the tracks than I could have made on the trolley, but there's not another damn thing I could have done...
Died. Pierre Monteux, 89, French-born conductor whose portly figure graced virtually all the major podiums -the Boston symphony (1919-24), Amsterdam (1924-34). San Francisco (1935-52), London (from 1961 on), guest conductor of close to 100 more-a maestro with a calm, precise technique that generally brought out the best both in the musicians and music; of a brain hemorrhage following a fall; at his home near Hancock...