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Concertmaster Richard Burgin, who filled in for Koussevitsky last week, started his program with what proved to be a prime example of the Symphony's doubtful taste. He chose what should have been a musical treat, a Handel Concerto Grosso in D Minor; but he treated it with bombast instead of finesse, using a huge orchestra that included among other things ten double-basses to play something written for a tiny group of strings. Performed in that fashion, the Concerto lost all of the finesse and delicacy which make it a great work...
Boston Symphony--Concerts tomorrow night, Friday afternoon, and Saturday evening feature Handel's D minor Concerto Grosso, a Prokovieff ballet suite ("Chout"), and the Sibelius first symphony, Concertmaster Richard Burgin conducts this week...
Invitation to Music (Wed. 11:30 p.m., CBS). English Composer-Conductor Anthony Collins leads the CBS Symphony in William Alwyn's Concerto Grosso and Mozart's Fantasy in F Minor...
...Brasil plane glided into a new airfield in the town of Governador Valladares, in inland Minas Gerais state. Aboard were the atabrine, antiseptics and insecticides that the U.S.-and Brazilian-sponsored SESP (Servigo Especial da Saude Publica) now flies to 32 backwoods outposts, from, the Amazon to the Mato Grosso. Crowds watched the plane come in. In other "lost towns" other crowds watched the landings of planes of Cruzeiro, Vasp, Aerovias do Brasil...
...little Army mail plane squealed to a stop on Rio's airport. Out stepped a half-naked Indian. He was Chief Inai Cachirere of Matto Grosso's Javaes Indians. In broken Portuguese he demanded an audience with General Candido Rondon, 80, begetter of Brazil's enlightened Indian policy. Said full-blooded Chief Cachirere to part-Indian General Rondon: "Old Father, I come to tell you that a white man bought 2,986 kilograms of quartz crystal from the Javaes Indians and did not pay for it. The man is Lauro Melo and he lives at Rua Machado...