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...concert of Janis' second Russian tour were both judges and contestants from the Tchaikovsky Competition, plus Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson. For the occasion, Janis attempted a staggering tour de force: three major concertos in a single concert. While rehearsing the Rachmaninoff First and the Schumann and Prokofiev Thirds with Conductor Kiril Kondrashin and the Moscow Philharmonic, Janis felt "like a race horse trying for the Triple Crown." Conductor Kondrashin was confident: "I have now heard a pianist who can play three utterly different concertos with a perfect sense of style -one of the greatest pianists of this age." The audience...
Schaaf has been informal conductor and advisor to two newly organized string quartets in Dunster which meet each Thursday night. Alwyn Pappenheimer, Master of Dunster House, plays the viola in one quartet with other members of the House...
...read out in the Tercentenary Theatre. Le Corbusier and Buckminster Fuller '17 may be there too, the Frenchman to see his building, the Dymaxionist for his 45th Reunion. The composer Elliot Carter '30 ought to have a degree by now; so perhaps should Erich Leinsdorf, the BSO's new conductor...
...haired girl who finished second-Philadelphia's Susan Starr. At 20 one of the youngest of the competitors, Pianist Starr ripped into the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto with such dazzling virtuosity that the audience erupted in applause at the end of the first movement, and the orchestra and conductor joined in at the close...
What most marred the group's performance was quite simple: it played too loud too often, and so muffled not only the subtleties of the music's dynamics, but also some of the instruments' varied sonorities. Although Conductor James Walker's baton pattern was a clear one, the players hardly followed it. Entrances and rhythmic patterns were consistently ragged, especially in slow passages. Yet the ensemble brought out considerable color and exuberance and the solo lines indicated real promise for the group...