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Blacher: Orchestral Variations on a Theme of Paganini (RIAS Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ferenc Fricsay; Decca). The same theme (for solo violin) used by Brahms for his famed Variations gets some plain and fancy going-over by one of Germany's most successful living composers. Boris Blacher uses a big orchestra in opulent style, with emphasis on suave clarinet murmurings, massed brasses in swing-band style and ingratiating melodies. The disk is Vol. I of Decca's New Directions in Music and Sound. Debussy: Pelleas and Mélisande (Janine Micheau, Camille Maurane; chorus and Lamoureux Orchestra conducted...
Houston's symphonic society. Word got around that Kurtz was considered good, but not great, and he received his notice. Guest conductors came for frank appraisal, and went, until Hungary's Ferenc Fricsay (pronounced free-cheye) appeared and led a stormy performance of Bartok that had the audience stamping approval. He won the contract hands down, but now he in turn is in trouble with President Hogg. Fricsay, who since 1948 had built Berlin's RIAS Orchestra into a first-rate ensemble, talked of grandiose plans for the future of the Houston Symphony...
Millionairess Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, 30, wife of sexagenarian Conductor Leopold Stokowski and self-admitted washout as an amateur actress at 16, starred before a sellout audience at Pennsylvania's Pocono Playhouse as the princess in Ferenc Molnar's The Swan. Consensus of the critics: "Nerveless poise." With Stoky's blessing, Gloria, mother of two and a painter of some commendable abstractions, suddenly found herself "enthusiastic about making the stage a career...
...police, a Brazilian player, as the Hungarians later told it, came forward to shake a friendly Hungarian hand. The two were still clasping hands when the Brazilian added a neat left to the chops. The Hungarian fell. The Brazilians insisted that it really began minutes before, when Hungarian Captain Ferenc Puskas hit Brazil's Joao Pinheiro in the face with a pop bottle. However it started, the fight swirled through the locker rooms, and players, spectators and officials got in licks with bottles, furniture, glass from shattered partitions and the toe-ends of good solid soccer boots. Swiss gendarmes...
...French, advertised as "A Bust and Belly Epic . . . Girls with Sequins and Girls Without." ' Planned Initiative. Next day the Hungarians formally and proudly introduced their stars: shock-haired Joseph Bozsik, 28, the squad's right halfback, who is a member of the Hungarian Parliament, and Captain Ferenc Puskas. 26, the inside right, who announced briefly and grimly: "We will win." English-language handouts explained that in Hungary "the pre-1945 sporting era of private enterprise and uncertainty of the morrow has given way to an era of planned initiative ensured by the people's democratic state...