Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last in the Ivy League for the past three seasons, the Crimson does not have more material than last year, but Coach Wilson, who will be making his debut as head coach tonight, has put together a very spirited squad. If the practice seasons at the I.A.B. have meant anything, tonight's team should but an improvement upon the lackluster squads of recent years...
...Boston Symphony, conducted by Charles Munch, made its Manhattan debut this season with Mario Peragallo's Violin Concerto. The work, by Italy's rising Composer Peragallo (44), won a first prize in Rome's Twentieth-Century Music conference last spring. A slick combination of atonal technique and Puccini-like melody, it kept Violinist Joseph Fuch's fingers flying, pleased musical conservatives more than the radicals...
Walton: Viola Concerto (William Primrose; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent; Columbia). A work which, after Façade, is William Walton's most renowned, makes its tardy LP debut (it was written in 1929). Although its texture is slightly richer than modern tastes approve, this is a strong composition, ranging from pensive to jazzy to robust...
...world's great sopranos, La Scala's U.S.-born Maria Meneghini Callas, made her U.S. debut in Chicago last week. It was a rouser. recalling Chicago's greatest operatic days with Mary Garden and Galli-Curci...
...Bach Society Orchestra, a group composed chiefly of undergraduates and conducted by Michael Greenebaum '55, gave its debut concert Sunday evening. The audience, which filled Paine Hall, expressed enthusiastic approval of this ambitious and well planned venture...