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...Music, the orchestra's function is to round out the students' musical education by giving them practice in the full orchestral range. Its public appearances were so successful that the State Department decided to sponsor a full-scale European tour. At first, Eastman's Howard Hanson, who directs both the school and the orchestra, worried that three months was a long time out of school. The tour turned out to be an education in itself...
...slacks. In Seville, the orchestra arrived during a flood (the concert became a benefit for flood victims), and in Aleppo, Syria, a bomb exploded outside the hall during the concert. Inside, the orchestra played calmly through a new orchestral version of the Syrian national anthem, hastily drafted by Conductor Hanson. Syrians liked it so much that it will probably be adopted as the official orchestral version...
Audiences everywhere were impressed by the orchestra's youth and skill. Even in Germany, musicians confessed that there is no student orchestra with the Eastman's professional polish. "It got to the point," says Hanson, "where if we didn't have five or six encores and a standing ovation, the students thought the concert was a failure." Nowhere was the Eastman a bigger hit than behind the Iron Curtain. In Lvov, Russia, the theater management had to turn off the lights before the audience stopped demanding encores. And in Moscow, the audience shouted "March, march, American march...
...kind of performance demanded by a conductor who wants his players to "see music from the inside." The Cleveland's program reflected the tastes of a musician who champions contemporary scores but is firmly schooled in "the great Viennese classics." Alongside Veteran Composer Howard Hanson's Bold Island Suite, Szell offered Haydn's Symphony No. Q2 ("Oxford"), Brahms's Violin Concerto in D (with Erica Morini as the excellent soloist), and Rossini's bubbly overture to La Gazza Ladra...
...treats foreseeable news is well illustrated by this week's cover story. Along with everybody else, we knew of the coming "million-dollar Rembrandt sale" months ago, and prepared for it by photographing the painting well in advance for the cover. Art Editor Bruce Barton and Researcher Deborah Hanson dug deep into the sale of previous great paintings at great prices, and the result is an art bonus-four pages of color reproductions of these masters. Then, building around last week's auction, Barton (with the help of correspondents in London, Paris and Rome) delved into the fascinating...