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PROKOFIEV: VIOLIN CONCERTOS (Columbia). Isaac Stern is at ease in both concertos, one written just before and the other 18 years after the revolution. Prokofiev is more playful and shocking in the first, simpler and more romantic in the second. The orchestra is the Philadelphia, conducted by Eugene Ormandy...
There will never be enough orchestras to suit Conductor Leopold Stolcowslci, 82. And plans to tear down Carnegie Hall when the New York Philharmonic moved out distressed him because that meant one less stage big enough to seat 96 musicians. So he, Violinist Isaac Stern and some others blew the whistle on the wreckers, and Stokowski founded the American Symphony as Carnegie's new tenant-whereupon the U.S. Government designated the hall a national landmark. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, 44, went up to affix the plaque on the wall outside, but Stokowski took the Arizonian up to the podium...
...entrance into Harvard (in the eyes of his hometown admirers an increase in stature) is to him a diminishment, in the most immediate sense. He is anonymous, low man on the totem pole. Like Jacob, he must win the birthright through ploys. As Jacob tricked Isaac into bestowing his blessing by putting on the godly rainments of his brother, and the skins of the kids of goats upon his hands, so does many a freshman, with the voice of Jacob, display to the world the hands of Esau...
...initial idea for the play could have been mouthed by a New York cab driver: Those atomic scientists are crazy, man; they belong in a nut house. Mad Scientist No. 1 (Hume Cronyn) believes he is Sir Isaac Newton. Mad Scientist No. 2 (George Voskovec) thinks he is Albert Einstein. Mad Scientist No. 3 (Robert Shaw) hears the voice of King Solomon, and occasionally imagines that he is Solomon...
Even among the many superbly qualified colonial administrators that Britain produced, Hugh Foot is a standout. He is a "slightly out of step" member of England's most brilliant nonconformist family. His late father, Isaac, a deeply cultivated man who raised his family on Edmund Burke and amused himself by reading the Bible in Greek, was a Liberal Party member of Ramsay MacDonald's 1931 coalition Cabinet. His brother Dwight was a Liberal M.P., and another brother, Michael, is the enfant terrible of Labor's left wing. "We liked to work to the rule...