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...second movement was complex and agitated, waltzlike and melodic, with muted violins and then muted trumpets repeating the soloist's refrainlike theme. The third movement opened with rich orchestral tone clusters, built to a brilliantly frenzied solo violin flight near the close. The 700 concertgoers called Conductor Enrique Jordá and Soloist Gross back for half a dozen bows, twice drew Imbrie from his seat in the audience...
...Spanish Composer Joaquin Rodrigo's Fantasia para Gentilhombre, performed by the San Francisco Symphony under Spanish Conductor Enrique Jordá, with famed Spanish Guitarist Andrés Segovia as soloist. Said blind Joaquin Rodrigo, 55, Spain's No. 1 contemporary composer: "I was afraid to compose a work for so great a guitarist." Replied Segovia: "I was afraid to perform it." After the low Spanish bows were over, soloist and orchestra set to work, unveiled an appealing, fastidious, slightly melancholy piece whose dance rhythms gave Segovia's guitar a chance to enthrall the audience...
...Franciscans were charmed by Jordá from his first guest appearance last season. They liked the vitality of his gestures, the warmth of tone he drew from the orchestra. Their hearts went out to him when his stiff collar popped open in a fiery Spanish number. Finally, his fondness for the lyrical touch and his romantic musical taste-he has revived rarely played Schumann and Dvorak symphonies-made him seem a logical successor to Monteux, who for 17 years had molded San Franciscan taste...
...Jordá's performances have created excitement wherever he has appeared, but much of his career has been off the musical main stem. He was born in the Basque city of San Sebastian, and after studies in Paris became the youthful conductor of the Madrid Symphony (1940-45). In 1947 he moved to South Africa to be conductor of the Cape Town Orchestra. Except for a guest stint in Buenos Aires in 1944, San Francisco was his first stop in the Western Hemisphere...
Conductor Jordá is delighted with his new job, calls his orchestra "superb," and makes deep bows to Papa Monteux for assembling it. So far, he says, he has not troubled to ask what his salary will be: "That will be handled by my-what do you call it?-impresario...