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...music around here frequently suffers from a total separation between the cerebral, arm-chair composer and the practicing performer. The Lukas Foss Improvisation Chamber Ensemble showed how delightful the result can be, when the writing hand knoweth what the performing hand doth. Spontaneity is the obvious thing to expect of an improvisation ensemble, but a surprising coherence revealed careful planning. The rare feeling that the music and the instruments had to go together gave the sounds a special excitement...
Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A program of Christmas music seldom heard, including selections by Poulenc, Messiaen, Foss, Handel, Bach and Britten...
...Clive F. Foss '61, has won the Charles Eliot Norton Fellowship in the Classics Department for a year of study in Greece...
...Ojai's festival director, Composer Lukas Foss,the Second String Quartet is not only "not easy" but also "rather astonishing-an opinion shared by most people who have heard it. The astonishment derives in part from the fact that Modernist Composer Carter treats his four instruments as individuals with "individual behavior patterns." The first violin is fantastic, ornate and mercurial," while he second violin is "laconic and orderly " the viola merely "expressive." and the cello "somewhat impetuous...
...A.F.L. will reach the end of its first season with all eight teams still in business. Survival is a triumph of sorts, but for the A.F.L. it is one that was dearly bought: losses for 1960 may run as high as $4,000,000. Sums up A.F.L. Commissioner Joe Foss, famed World War II fighter ace: "I'm not disappointed, nor am I satisfied...