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...spectators gave Composer-Conductor Casals a ten-minute standing ovation, all the more enthusiastic because he had almost failed to make it to the premiere. A few hours before the performance he felt ill, was told that he had a slight pulmonary congestion. To his doctor he announced: "Tonight I am going to conduct even if they have to take me out of there dead...
...Another big problem," Schreiber explained, "is to give these youngsters cultural experiences of the sort most middle class kids get from their families. We take them to museums, concerts, plays and sometimes we even get the conductor or lead actor to talk to them. We try to make each visit an excursion. If we take them to Carnegie Hall, we make sure they walk down 57th Street afterwards and go to the Automat, say, for something to eat. We want them to get the idea that they can walk on 57th Street and go into a restaurant just like anyone...
...addition to conducting, Joey plays half a dozen instruments, has written one symphony, eleven sonatinas, two sonatas, two piano concertos, two overtures, a tone poem, a rondo and a rhapsody. His problem just now is to determine whether he wants to be a composer, a conductor or a concert pianist. "Well," says Papa Alfidi calmly, "look at Lenny Bernstein. What...
morrow evening at 8:30 the program will include Brahms' Symphony No. 2 and Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra. The guest conductor for both concerts will be Lorin Maazel...
...BACH SOCIETY ORCHESTRA will give its second concert of the season in Paine Hall on Sunday afternoon at 3:30. Conductor Joel Lazar has included on his program Vivaldi's Concerto for Orchestra ("per la solennita di S. Lorenzo"), Milhaud's Symphony No. 1 for small orchestra, and Mozart's Posthorn Serenade...