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...when the 46-year-old composer himself was at the piano and his old friend Fritz Reiner on the podium. Since then, the work has rarely been performed in Europe and never by a major U.S. orchestra. Last week it made a long overdue reappearance under the baton of Conductor Reiner, and this time the stepchild clearly strode with a giant's tread...
...Dramatic Soprano Rosa Ponselle got carried away in the fight scene of Carmen's Act I and yanked two strands of Mezzo Belleri's braids out by the roots; or the occasion, in Liszt's rarely performed Saint Elizabeth, when one soldier lost his tights, causing Conductor Artur Bodanzky to go into such a seizure of laughter that the orchestra had to finish the scene by itself. During half a century, Mezzo Belleri has also developed some unshakable critical judgments. Elizabeth Rethberg was "absolutely the greatest soprano" she ever heard, while Margarete Matzenauer was "the mezzo...
...Gunther Schuller's Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee had its premiere with the visiting Minneapolis Symphony under Conductor Antal Dorati. Each of Schuller's studies took its name from a Klee painting, tried to preserve the rhythms of the work and in some cases the colors. Antique Harmonies, for instance, is a canvas of overlapping blocks, ranging from near black through amber, ochre and brown to brighter colors; to Schuller, it suggested a hushed, dense background of woodwinds, interrupted by "the brighter yellow of the trumpets and high strings." Klee's famed Twittering Machine, which...
...David Diamond's The World of Paul Klee, which had its premiere in 1958, was played by the New York Philharmonic under Assistant Conductor Seymour Lipkin. Each of Diamond's four musical pictures was introduced by a "frame," which served the same mood-setting function that Mussorgsky's "promenades" do in Pictures from an Exhibition. Like Schuller, Composer Diamond used Twittering Machine as the inspiration for one of his pieces, but he saw it in more somber tones: muted, dark-hued movements of the strings, with the picture's more jagged lines delineated by scampering woodwinds...
...into touch with people speculating on the meaning of war and searching for what is true and enduring. Inevitably this led to a discussion of art. Art is the most personal, intimate experience a man can have. It's entirely between the artist and you. There is no conductor, no musician, no actor, nobody to interpret the experience...