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...Erich Leinsdorf in both. Standout: Leo Kerz's imaginative, fluid settings projected behind fixed arches onto a backdrop screen. Ahead for the enterprising San Francisco Opera this season: the U.S. premiere of Sir William Walton's Troilus and Cressida (TIME, Dec. 13), and a revival of Rimsky-Korsakov's Coq d'Or with first-rate Negro Coloratura Mattiwilda Dobbs...
Stravinsky: Symphony No. 1, Op. 1 (Vienna Orchestral Society conducted by F. Charles Adler; Unicorn). A totally uncharacteristic work by the century's most notorious modernist. This beginner's work contains the material of Tchaikovsky without his melodic gift, the orchestration of Rimsky-Korsakov without his logic, the structure of Brahms in all his squareness. A good joke...
...Concerto ("because he was an Armenian"), gave it its U.S. premiere. The concerto was an instant hit and Maro took it on a cross-country tour. Says she: "At that time, Khachaturian seemed very modern; now, of course, he is considered little more than just this side of Rimsky-Korsakov...
...Redskins' football game, gave what it billed as a "Soundorama Hi-Fi Concert." Designed both to introduce hi-fi bugs to live music and to show a symphony audience how good hi-fi can be, the program was weighted with colorful scores, e.g., Salome's Dance, Rimsky-Korsakov's Spanish Caprice, etc. Part of the performance was recorded and played back over a system of 30 speakers, and some listeners could hardly tell the difference between real and electronic...
...Friday night, the faculty's second spring concert opened with Manuel de Falla's Harpsichord Concerto. While de Falla's music has a strongly Spanish flavor, it is not the tambourine-and-castanets omelet favored by Rimsky-Korsakov and Bizet. Rather, he uses irregular rhythms, unresolved harmonic tensions, and occasional folk tunes to create an atmosphere of barely concealed Latin violence. The jangling sound of the harpsichord and an accompaniment reduced to five instruments further the effect and connote its inspiration: the sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti. Harpsichordist Melville Smith and his ensemble did full justice to lyrical elements...