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...down to take over the Chicago Symphony (TIME, Jan. 9). After six months of negotiation, Sir Malcolm had accepted on condition that he could spend half his time free-lancing at home & abroad and conducting the roof-raising choral concerts which are his specialty (he has recorded both Handel's Messiah and Mendelssohn's Elijah for Columbia...
...Faithful Shepherd Suite Handel Five Pieces for Strings, Op. 44 Hindemith Dor Frelschutz Overture Wober Antiche Danze ed Arle Respighi Double Piano Concerto No. 10 Mozart Toccata Froscobaldi...
...Orchestra showed careful preparation for the concert and was at its best. The strings started a bit sloppily in the Handel piece, but this was more than made up for in John May's excellent flute playing in the Adagio. The Orchestra moved through the intricate Hindemith work with comparative case. Benjamin Cogen, concertmaster, was particularly fine in his solo spots, and all sections played well in the tuneful if noisy Weber Overture...
...producing Handel's "Acis and Galatea" and Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas," the Lowell House Musical Society has properly challenged the unjustified away of the ponderous 19th century opera. Last night's "Dido" makes you think that opera would be better off if everyone did as much with older works as Lowell House...
...cembalo; Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Clemens Krauss conducting; Haydn Society, 6 sides LP). This is one of Haydn's finest works, but paradoxically, one that sounds least like Haydn. Already in his late 50s, Haydn went to London, heard the choral singing in the huge Handel Festival of 1791, and returned to Vienna feeling liberated from the classical form he himself had done so much to develop. When he got around to composing this work, seven years later, he followed his predecessor Handel's example, wrote to conform more to a text (a theme from...