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...also extracts and copies the music for each instrument, calculates the appropriate rests so that a player can turn the page without getting tangled in his instrument, and writes in all the cues. Beyond that, he clarifies the symbols, catches wrong notes, adds missing flats and sharps. Says Aaron Copland: "In his own way, Arnstein is an artist. He makes you feel as if you have an extra pair of eyes looking for mistakes...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 "Tanglewood-Music Under the Trees" takes a look at the Berkshire Music Festival in Tanglewood, Mass, with Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Composers Aaron Copland and Gunther Schuller; Sopranos Phyllis Curtin and Jane Marsh; and Pianist Grant Johannesen...
...student at the Moscow Conservatory, does not have to worry about competitions for a while. In addition to his first-prize money, he won a $400 gold watch for the best performance of Structure for Piano, composed for the contest by Willard Straight, $300 for the best interpretation of Copland's Piano Sonata, the opportunity to play with twelve major U.S. orchestras, a three-month tour of Europe, a debut recital at Carnegie Hall in April, and a contract for further concertizing in the U.S., Canada and Latin America...
...kind of teaser course for the uninitiated, moved on to headier stuff by Vaughan Williams, Frederick Delius and William Walton. The orchestra more than lived up to its reputation as one of the world's finest ensembles. Bolstered by such first-rank performers as Composer-Conductor Aaron Copland, Cellist Janos Starker, Violinist Jaime Laredo and Pianist John Ogdon, the festival was off to an impressive start...
...with his arms outstretched, the white-bearded, white-jacketed conductor looked like a snowy egret about to flap off into the fading sunset. Instead, he flew into Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, his baton carving the air, his left hand kneading a softly glowing tone from the strings. In Copland's Quiet City, he moved with the sure, deft strokes of a tailor stitching a hem, weaving the complex patterns into a taut whole. The interpretations, typically, were masterpieces of lucidity and logic, and at concert's end the audience at Stanford University awarded a resounding ovation...