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...performances of Offenbach's ballet Le Papillon, which has never been given outside the Paris Opèra, Butler teachers and students spent hours reconstructing the orchestral parts from a copy of the original conductor's score. "I'm going to die," exclaimed Indianapolis Symphony Conductor Izler Solomon in mock horror when he was handed the 435 pages of Paderewski's Symphony in B Minor, which took nearly seven years to compose. Solomon cut the thunderous, brass-filled nationalistic epic to a manageable 33 minutes and turned it into the showpiece of the festival...
...goes well, several years in the same town give him a closeness to his orchestra that he develops into musical accomplishment - as Paul Paray did in ten years with Detroit, and as Robert Whitney is doing in Louisville, Izler Solomon in Indianapolis and Hans Schwieger in Kansas City. Occasionally, as with Szell in Cleveland, the orchestra's sponsors share the maestro's boundless aspirations, and stand back while he takes the orchestra as far from home as its excellence makes it welcome...
Conductors: Dimitri Mitropoulos. Fritz Reiner, Izler Solomon. Leopold Stokowski, George Szell...
Weill: Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra, Op. 12 (Anahid Ajemian; M-G-M Wind Orchestra conducted by Izler Solomon; M-G-M). A selection from Kurt Weill's nearly forgotten early period in Germany. The first movement is modern, the second a sleazy serenade with a crude rhythm jiggling under a high-toned fiddle, the third a romping gallop. Despite the strange orchestration that leaves the mid-range empty, the music is rich harmonically, and contains snatches of Weill's low-down lyricism that was to blossom into Three-Penny Opera, Street Scene, September Song, etc. Performance...
...Toccata for Percussion (conducted by Izler Solomon; M-G-M). Probably the most recent (1953) of its genre, this is a taut and restrained composition for six players and 18 instruments. Partly because of a recording job of rare fidelity and superior performance, partly because it is a master-crafted composition, this is a stunning record...