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...poor source for operatic material: deliberately unsensational, they often deal with lives that are determinedly sensible. But last week audiences in Mannheim, Germany, saw Wilder's one-act play, The Long Christmas Dinner, successfully transformed into opera by that master craftsman of contemporary music-Composer Paul Hindemith...
...flatly replied: ''I don't see any, except perhaps Stravinsky." In a tart catalogue of inadequacies, the peppery new conductor of the London Symphony went on: "Mahler, he won't live; he's an imitator. Prokofiev, I don't think so. Shostakovich, no. Hindemith, no inspiration. Bartok: I give him ten years...
...music department sponsor the new group "in the same way it supports other fine music organizations such as the HRO and the Bach Society." He is working hard to "get the ensemble on its feet as soon as possible," and anticipates it will present works by Perischetti, Milhaud, and Hindemith "to a small, but discriminating audience...
...Hindemith: String Quartet No. 3 (The Kroll Quartet; Epic). A fine recording of a 1922 work that is admirably forthright in feeling, rhythmically sophisticated, studded with complexities and equipped with an impressively melancholy slow movement...
...Monday through Friday from 1-2 p.m. in its garden (Kirkland St. and Divinity Ave.). The public is Divinity Ave.), The public is invited free of charge, and lunches may be brought. Each Wednesday the selection is related to a work of art. Next week: Mozard, Cost fan tutte; Hindemith, Mathis der Maler (Wed.); Schuller's Seven Studies on Themes by Paul Klee (Wed.): Stravinsky's Apollon Musagete; and Schubert's Octet...