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Dame Myra Hess, 65, gave a standout performance of Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1 (the one supposedly too heroic for women to attempt) with the Philharmonic-Symphony, conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos (a mere...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Soloist: Dame Myra Hess...
...production genius, said: "If we didn't have Von Neurath, we would all go crazy." They were an ill-assorted lot: fat, bald, obscene Walter Funk (No. 6); rich, young, suicidal Baldur von Schirach (No. 1); dangerous, unrepentant ex-Admiral Karl Doenitz (No. 2); weird, half-sane Rudolf Hess (No. 7): arthritic, pious ex-Admiral Erich Raeder (No. 4). Von Neurath would recall for them the glittering days when he was his country's envoy to the Kings of Italy and Great Britain. He had been a childhood friend of Britain's Queen Mary, who called...
...Harvard audience heard the most recent manifestations of Igor Stravinsky's art-last Sunday evening in a Sanders Theatre concert. An instrumental Septet (1953), the Cantata (1952), and Three Songs from Shakespeare (1953) comprised the program. The quality of performance throughout was superb with the exception of William Hess' tenor; and its strained quality was probably attributable to a cold. Both Mr. Hess and mezzo-soprano Eunice Alberts mastered vocal parts of exceptional difficulty. The modulations of mood and expressiveness which Miss Alberts achieved were striking. The precision and suppleness of conductor Spies' rhythmic impulse and the virtuosity...
...Cambridge Quartet include Phyllis Curtin, soprano; Eunice Alberts, contralto; William Hess, tenor; Paul Matthen, bass. All except Mr. Hess are local musicians and have frequently appeared as soloists in Boston. A mediumsized audience responded to the group's superb artistry as well as to its evident enthusiasm in performance by one of the warmest ovations I have witnessed this season in Sanders Theatre...