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...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra has unanimously accepted a Music Department offer to establish an Instructorship in Music for the post of conductor next year...
...assault on the world of music, not unlike the author's skirmish, in Reclining Figure, with the world of art. The method is to let fly now at chicanery and now at sham, and in between to go in for shenanigans. The central figure is an egomaniac orchestra conductor who, from shattering his musicians' fiddles and his trustees' feelings, can hardly find an orchestra to conduct. On one side he is Blanked by a shameless manager who ten times a day tries to save the day with desperate lies, on the other by a wife who once...
George Axelrod's staging is lively, and Arlene Francis is high-spirited as the wife. Joseph Cotten's playing of the conductor is off key, but then the conductor himself seems outlandish...
...Brahms presents technical difficulties comparable to the Berlioz, and musical problems that are much deeper. But the orchestra had solved most of the technical problems, and conductor Attilio Poto showed not only his usual control and precision, but also an interpretation which was neither unusual nor detailed, but was remarkable in its mere presence. Too often, his sole concern has been with "the notes" rather than the more profound problems of musicality, and this performance represented a refreshing change...
Marriage Disclosed. Herbert von Karajan, 50, Salzburg-born orchestra conductor, widely known as "Generalmusik-direktor of the continent of Europe," who was recently divorced (TIME, Sept. 22) by his second wife after 16 years of marriage; and Eliette Mouret, 19, French model; in Megeve, France...