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Hindemith was also a professional viola soloist and gave the work's premiere, later recording the piece with Arthur Fiedler after he emigrated to America. The performance by Thompson and the M.I.T. forces is perfectly acceptable, but there is no reason to prefer it since the work is currently available in four other performances with professional orchestras...
Even so, the author deserves close attention. If he is not quite the figure Critic Leslie Fiedler once described as "The greatest science fiction writer ever," his imagination is certainly of the first rank. And if his prodigious saga falters, it is only after four volumes, when the journey has already provided a library's worth of merriment and insight. "In skating over thin ice," wrote Emerson, "our safety is in our speed." Until the final stretch, Farmer's velocity is breathtaking. -Peter Stoler
MARRIED. John Williams, 48, hot Hollywood sound-track composer (Jaws I and II, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back), who succeeded Arthur Fiedler as conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra this year; and Samantha Winslow, thirtyish, a Los Angeles freelance photographer; he for the second time, she for the first; in Boston...
...surprises) add up to nothing, they fizzle like a summer squall over Cape Cod. As he proved in the hockey and snow sequences in Love Story, Segal has a sharp eye for powerful movie scenes. Bob & Sheila & Jessica & Paula & Jean-Claude peaks with Bob and Jean-Claude at Arthur Fiedler's fiftieth anniversary July Fourth concert. As they sit in a drenching downpur eating sandwiches, the Old Man throws the Pops into the 1812 Overature as fireworks explode into the night sky. It's sort of like the running sequence in Rocky, only Ivy League...
Following a legend, conceded Composer John T. Williams last week, "will be very difficult." Still he seems a logical choice to take the baton of the late Arthur Fiedler as conductor of the Boston Pops. A month short of his 48th birthday, Williams has written more than 50 film scores, and won Oscars for three (Fiddler on the Roof, Jaws and Star Wars). The new leader will meet his musicians at a Boston rehearsal next week, then conduct his first concert at Carnegie Hall. The parent Boston Symphony Orchestra, which depended on Fiedler's prodigious performances to keep...