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Since 1952, when the Boston Symphony toured Europe in triumph, visiting U.S. orchestras have repeatedly demonstrated that they are now the world's best. But few orchestras have attracted quite the attention accorded the 87-member Eastman Philharmonia, which returned home last week after a 13-week, 34-city tour. Though Europeans expect excellence from the U.S., they were unprepared for such quality from a student orchestra, most of whose members are in or barely out of their teens...
Organized four years ago, at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, the orchestra's function is to round out the students' musical education by giving them practice in the full orchestral range. Its public appearances were so successful that the State Department decided to sponsor a full-scale European tour. At first, Eastman's Howard Hanson, who directs both the school and the orchestra, worried that three months was a long time out of school. The tour turned out to be an education in itself...
Audiences everywhere were impressed by the orchestra's youth and skill. Even in Germany, musicians confessed that there is no student orchestra with the Eastman's professional polish. "It got to the point," says Hanson, "where if we didn't have five or six encores and a standing ovation, the students thought the concert was a failure." Nowhere was the Eastman a bigger hit than behind the Iron Curtain. In Lvov, Russia, the theater management had to turn off the lights before the audience stopped demanding encores. And in Moscow, the audience shouted "March, march, American march...
Died. Thomas Jean Hargrave, 70, board chairman of Eastman Kodak Co., a sturdy Nebraska-born lawyer who started off his career with the world's biggest photographic company by refusing autocratic Founder George Eastman's offer to make him an officer of the firm, but subsequently relented and rapidly rose to the top of the Kodak tripod, where he expanded the company's sales 81% in 20 years by adding chemicals and plastics to its output; after a long illness; in Rochester...
...tune, through the New Deal and the united front (against fascism), the Spanish Civil War (which temporarily resolved liberal doubts about Russia on the simple ground that anyone who fought fascists must somehow be good), the Moscow trials (which rent the united front and so outraged Veteran Revolutionary Max Eastman that the comrades accused him of accepting $25,000 from the British Secret Service to slander Russia), right up to the great awakening -the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939. The great love affair was over. Extreme cruelty has been charged by both parties...