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...Just because you did not like Foss's cello Concert [March 17] is no reason for name-calling and reasonless ridicule. I am not one of those who feel that "if it's new, it must be good," but I have a strong suspicion that the composer of Time Cycle and Echoi has not suddenly stopped writing masterpieces and started writing trash. Moreover, your review is strongly reminiscent of the derisive criticism that has greeted every major composer. One is reminded of Mozart's clarinet concerto ("Unfit for ladies' ears") and Beethoven's seventh symphony...
Like many contemporary composers, America's Lukas Foss, 44, has been experimenting lately with new sounds. At Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week, Foss conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, with Soloist Mstislav Rostropovich, in the world premiere of his Concert (not, inexplicably, concerto) for Cello and Orchestra. There were no really new sounds in the piece-just old sounds, such as blatt, splatt and pflat...
Undaunted by a few walkouts, Foss and Rostropovich clattered on for two more movements, straining the limits of the instruments, desperately avoiding melody and rhythm, grinding and groaning till they were spent. True, the applause at the end was louder than the boos, but much of that could have been a tribute to Rostropovich's bravery rather than Foss...
...Berlin piano teacher who immigrated to the U.S. when Andre was nine, he has made a success of all the many keys he touched. Previn studied classical music under Italian Composer-Conductor Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, did considerable moonlighting in Hollywood, "cheating every minute." With a friend, Composer Lukas Foss, he recorded all the four-hand piano music of Mozart. He wrote a symphony and a quantity of piano works and chamber music. He did the arrangements for several bestselling jazz albums. And he fared well as guest conductor of several symphonies...
...During Foss's six years as commissioner, the once-struggling A.F.L. became a solid competitor of the older by 39 years) National Football League. In 1964, the A.F.L. won a $36 million TV contract. By last year, attendance had soared to an average of 31,500 per game-more people, as Foss iked to point out, than the biggest crowd at any game in the league's first year. Last August the league expanded to nine teams-adding a franchise in Miami-and now there is talk of a tenth tearn in Chicago. How much Foss...