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Brahms: Concerto No. 2 (Sviatoslav Richter, piano; the Chicago Symphony under Erich Leinsdorf; RCA Victor). In this first Richter recording made in the U.S., the great Russian pianist gives a performance as taut as a bent bow. At the end of the session, Richter turned to Conductor Leinsdorf and said: "Please explain to the orchestra that I could do no better." Nor could anyone...
...experiences pleased him more than to be out in a small boat in a storm. "That's fine! That's fine!" he would cry every time a big wave tossed the boat aloft. He drew on foot, on horseback and on trains, was outraged when the conductor would not hold the train long enough for him to complete a sketch: "Damn the fellow. He has no feeling!" His work was championed by such men as Critic John Ruskin and Painter Sir Thomas Lawrence and commanded top prices. But it was also called the worst "claptrap ever painted...
...German troops mysteriously call off a military operation. Inevitably, the priest's miracles are less convincing than his miseries. Yet through Don Ardito's occasional wonderworking, Novelist Coccioli compellingly argues his central thesis: that the saint is not a spiritual generator, but a spiritual conductor through whom the current of godliness electrically flows. It is apparent long before novel's end that Don Ardito had never actually faltered in his faith, and that what he had mourned as loss of soul was really the dross of self...
West Berlin Concert (CBS, 5-6 p.m.). A tape of the New York Philharmonic during the recent German visit, with Conductor Leonard Bernstein lecturing on "The Universality of Beethoven's Music" and doubling as soloist in Beethoven's Concerto "No. I" in C Major...
...this was no ordinary rendition; in fact, it turned out to be an extended-very extended-parody of a Harvard fight song, complete with all the trimmings. From this the Elis went on to sing the fight songs of various other colleges; as the audience alternately hissed and applauded, conductor Fenno Heath ambled back and forth between the piano and the podium...