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...opening Celebration Overture of Paul Creston was a truly "joyful noise," but it was also a controlled noise. With large numbers of its football-season members weeded out, the band sounded less like a band than an expanded wind section of an orchestra...
James Walker deserves much of the credit for the precision of the Band's performance. Throughout the concert, his conducting was energetic and exact. Even in the most rhythmically aberrant sections of the Creston, Copland, or Hindemith works, he was able not simply to keep the Band together, but to present the various crossrhythms and syncopations with the utmost clarity...
...loosely flowing, and surprisingly modern, harmonies of three early composers best displayed the dynamic control and agility of the Glee Club's voices. After a 'Suabian Folk Song' by Brahms, an arrangement by Vaughan Williams, and an unwitting parody on schmaltz by Paul Creston, richness palled: what the Glee Club needed was more good, lean music like the Bartok 'Three Folk Songs.' To these the Choral Society gave its strongest and most straightforward performance of the evening...
...EVENING CONCERT--Creston-Invocation and Dance; Locatelli-Sonata in D for Cello; Beethoven-Piano Concerto No. 4 in G., Op. 58; Listz-Les Preludes...
Mostly, the Poles stamped for the same old warhorses the Clevelanders had played elsewhere-Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Strauss's Don Juan, excerpts from a Ravel Daphnis and Chloö suite. There was little stamping-only applause-for newer works (by Wallingford Riegger, Samuel Barber, Paul Creston, Bela Bartok). Said Dziennik Polski: "The Cleveland Orchestra plays like one magnificent soloist . . . A thing like yesterday's concert was never before seen or heard here...