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...first round eliminated all but 15 players. The second (Marin Marais's La Folia or the second movement of Kodaly's Sonata, Op. 8) cut them down to four. In the finals, first prize and 350,000 francs ($833) went to the U.S.'s Leslie Parnas, 25, first cellist with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. The Russian entries came in third and fourth, while a West German girl took second place. Cried Maestro Casals: "That was real music, the most remarkable contest I was ever present at." Said Cellist Parnas, who soloed with the St. Louis Symphony...
...Folia: Harpsichord Concerto (Sylvia Marlowe; Concert Arts Players; Capitol). An uncompromising concert work (1926) by the composer of the ballet Three-Cornered Hat. The style varies between a toccata motion of unceasing activity, and arpeggios opposed by ponderous chords. The small orchestra sounds smooth through the sometimes ripping dissonances; the harpsichord sounds like somebody jumping on the bedsprings...
...Touch. With Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting members of his New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Szigeti gave his sell-out audience four works for violin and orchestra-and nothing else, a rare program for the U.S. (though not for European audiences). He opened with the clear, forthright Corelli suite La Folia; then came the Brahms Violin Concerto, followed by Portrait No. 1, an early work of his late Hungarian compatriot and friend Bela Bartok, and finally the Beethoven Concerto...
...cream with a rose floating in it.' " Please compare . . . Elegy on Cynthia of Sextus Propertius: "Lilies would not surpass my mistress for whiteness; 'tis as though maeotic snows were to strive with Spanish vermillion, or rose leaves floated amid stainless milk (utque rosae puro lacte natant folia)." Please remember Propertius lived circa 24 B.C., and besides, Cynthia, we are told, had yellow hair and black eyes. Could she have been the ecstatic publicity man's prototype...
Afternoon before Christmas, White House Secretary Steve Early held a special press conference to read two letters received by Folia, the President's night-colored Scotty. Wrote Noodle Van Loon of Greenwich, Conn, (enclosing a gift): "I do hope you like these cookies as much as I do." Wrote Rip Patterson of Pittsburgh (who signed himself "the Presidential mascot's cocker spaniel friend") : "A magazine* refers to you as a 'silent and undemanding companion.' Don't ever change. Your master must have few enough who fall into that category." Except for two-year-old Franklin...