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...Verrett-Carter. The Philharmonic was followed in later programs by the Boston, the Philadelphia and the Cleveland orchestras, by the New York Pro Musica, the Juilliard String Quartet, the Metropolitan Opera, assorted pianists (including Van Cliburn), and by Adlai Stevenson, who, in excellent voice, provided the narration to Aaron Copland's A Lincoln Portrait...
...program, a bouillabaisse of Copland, Gershwin, Kern, Victor Herbert, Leonard Bernstein and Giuseppe Verdi, was an unqualified success. When the orchestra broke bouncily into the score of West Side Story, even the guests of honor, Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, could not help tapping their feet. Despite the hazards of the location and the hackneyed nature of the music, the long concert was one more demonstration that under 40-year-old Conductor Frémaux the once-moribund Monte Carlo Orchestra is fast becoming one of Europe's most gifted ensembles...
...Equal. For an after-dinner treat, there was a performance of Aaron Copland's ballet Billy the Kid. The guests went home still chuckling over Kennedy's graceful tribute to Houphouet-Boigny which was coupled with a comment about his own political situation. The Ivory Coast President, said the host, was certainly a distinguished individual, "and I am not alone referring to the fact that in a free election he was elected by 98% of the voters of his country-a record which has not been equaled recently in the United States, and from all I read, will...
WHAT is the magic that attracts composers to Mlle. Boulanger, and what is the secret ingredient that she contributes? Copland describes his view of it in this way: "It is literally exhilarating to be with a teacher for whom the art one loves has no secrets. Nadia Boulanger knew everything there was to know about music; she knew the oldest and the latest music, pre-Bach and post-Stravinsky, and knew it cold.... I am convinced that it is Mlle. Boulanger's perceptivity as a musician that is at the core of her teaching. She is able to grasp...
...friends threw a little party her seventieth birthday, at the of Igor Markevitch in the Swiss As ever, she was thin, almost in Copland's term, "nun-like." Markevitch children presented her $3,000 diamond purchased by boulangerie, and the guests broke a chorus composed for the by former student Francis Poulence was a birthday party such as few enjoy; Mlle. Boulanger had the congratulations of the musical world...