Word: kostelanetz
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Everywhere you go, it's Hello, Dolly! Everybody is doing it: modern jazz groups, Dixieland groups, dance bands. Paul Anka, Frank Sinatra, Peter Nero, Al Hirt, Benny Goodman, Andy Williams, Steve Lawrence, Andre Kostelanetz. "I guess there hasn't been a big hit like this since Star Dust," says Manhattan Disk Jockey William B. Williams...
...ideal pops concert is played in a park, and its program is as light and harmless as a passing cloud-Gershwin, Sousa, Leroy Anderson. This follows the old axiom that serious music, like aged whisky, should be saved for cold winter nights.* But the music that Conductor Andre Kostelanetz chose to open the New York Philharmonic "Promenades" series last week had real substance-Shostakovich, Ravel, Alan Hovhaness...
Such enterprise might easily be mistaken for coming to the picnic in overcoat and vest, especially since the Philharmonic is a beginner at a game best played in Boston, and a rather stuffy beginner at that. But the mood Kostelanetz was after was something on the order of refined amusement. The staid rows of amber seats had been removed from Philharmonic Hall and replaced by tables and chairs as closely packed as in a Paris cafe. As the orchestra played, the audience sipped champagne and gazed around the hall. To such a cheerful atmosphere, Kostelanetz merely wanted to add music...
...champagne was enough to insure the audience's good humor, but the critics could scarcely express their discontent. "A tasteless hodgepodge," said the Times. "A grab bag of cheap tricks," grumbled the News. Poor Kostelanetz- he did the noble thing, but he did it badly. He had tried to elevate the pops concert to a level beyond simple, forgettable amusement. With the response he got, he no doubt wishes he had stuck to schmaltz. But the Philharmonic's program for the rest of the 20-concert series includes much that is seldom performed and deserves attention. The credit...
Jaunty as ever, up from Flat Rock, N.C., came Poet Carl Sandburg, 85, to recite Aaron Copland's A Lincoln Portrait with Andre Kostelanetz...