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...wunderbar, the four were often shakily uneven. The only real star of the evening proved to be Canadian Tenor Jon Vickers as Florestan, who sang his moving second-act aria, In des Lebens Frühlingstagen (In the springtime days of life), with conviction and power. The orchestra under Conductor Karl Boehm was ragged, and the winds tootled some of the wrongest notes to pierce the Met air in a long while...
Forcing onward on his U.S. tour (TIME, Jan. 4), Britain's doughty Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, 80, steamed by train into Pittsburgh, hit his typical stride by riding from his Pullman sleeper to the depot on a baggage cart. After being pushed some 300 yds. (the length of eleven passenger cars) by a Pennsylvania Railroad cop and a Pittsburgh Symphony flack, Sir Thomas met the usual pack of newshounds, barked with a keen pitch for the headlines. As for the "lollipops concerts" that he planned to conduct, it would be the "soothing, soporific" music that he customarily plays...
...Conductor Newell Jenkins' Clarion Concerts, which for two years have made a distinguished name by searching out musical curiosa, in a Town Hall concert featured Alessandro Scarlatti's rarely performed oratorio, II Martirio di Sant' Orsola. An unpretentious work, it had little true dramatic tension but was supported by a vocal latticework of wonderful warmth, tenderness and transparency. Elsewhere on the program. Conductor Jenkins exhumed a wonderfully flourishing Trumpet Suite by 17th century English Composer Jeremiah Clarke, and played Mexican Composer Carlos Chavez' Symphony No. 5, a propulsively rhythmic work for strings that ran hard...
...year-old Orchestra of America, under Conductor Richard Korn at Carnegie Hall, presented a program of the kind of music it was founded to perform-little-known works by American composers. John Knowles Paine's Overture to "As You Like It" and Howard Hanson's Lux Aeterna proved merely to be pleasantly melodic, soundly constructed works with undistinguished profiles. Leon Kirchner's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra belonged to the crash-bang-and-meander school of modernism, with the violins chasing random single notes in sequence while the cello stuttered insistently, as if trying to interrupt...
...Music, by Leonard Bernstein. The conductor-composer writes about music for the layman without sounding like a practitioner of what he calls the "Music Appreciation Racket...