Word: krachmalnick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Curtain Up. Day before the Brussels opening, Music Director Samuel Krachmalnick set about rehearsing a pickup orchestra of phlegmatic Flemings. A Brussels milliner, working from a photograph, in six hours ran up helmets for The Combat. At the scheduled time, in the U.S. Pavilion theater, the curtain rose on the Ballet Theatre. The first work on the bill was Theme and Variations, but variations predominated: girls in Sylphides tutus and men in tights, which had just arrived from New York, leaped and twirled against a backdrop from Gala Performance...
...flowing back and forth." Richter gave Prokofiev's tongue-in-cheek score a kaleidoscopic range, resisted the temptation to lushness in the concerto's lyrical passages or to percussive effects in its driving climax. "He tossed it off," said the Philadelphia's awed Concertmaster Jacob Krachmalnick, "like walking through a garden...
Evelyn Lear, Richard Cassilly and James Gibbons turned in particularly outstanding performances in leading roles. And conductor Samuel Krachmalnick merits praise for eliciting such polished and nuanced playing from his orchestra members...