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During last week's TV concert (finale of Dvorak's "New World" symphony), the doctors played competently and with gusto. And, for once, the program was not interrupted by the sudden departure of one of the oboists-an obstetrician...
Philadelphia Orchestra (Sat. 9:05 p.m., CBS). Music of Tchaikovsky and Dvorak...
...keys are closest to the fingers' "home" position on the second row, and closest to the most agile fingers; vowels are on the second row. On a standard keyboard the left hand does 57% of the work; on the new keyboard, only 44%. Invented in 1934 by August Dvorak, now the University of Washington's research director, the new keyboard has drawn scattered cheers, but has never before come this close to actual adoption...
...composer in the United States. The Last Words of David is a typical work, concentrating on simplicity and using modal harmonies. The style, however, is a little too conscious of choral effect. The European list singers contributed some fine singing in the Thompson chorus and were even better in Dvorak's Magdlein im Walde. Conductor G. Wallace Woodworth was in his stylistic element and led this pleasant piece to a faultless performance...
...with "enthusiasm and unconcealed joy," reported Editor Herbert Kupferberg. Their "most tedious ten": 1) Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, 2) Franck's Symphony in D Minor, 3) Ravel's Bolero, 4) Wagner's Parsifal, 5) Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, 6) Brahms's Requiem, 7) Dvorak's Symphony No. 5 ("New World"). 8) Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"), 9) Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, 10) Tchaikovsky's Symphony...