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...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). First U.S. broadcast of Ernest Krenek's Piano Concerto...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Prelude and Allegro by Couperin-Milhaud; Krenek's Symphony No. 4; Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor. Clifford Curzon at the piano, Dimitri Mitropoulos on the podium...
More lenient, Czech Composer Bohuslav Martinu and Italian modernist Composer Vittorio Rieti hedged. So did Austrian Composer Ernst Krenek, who philosophically noted that the great 16th-Century Italian Composer Palestrina "collaborated" with the Pope and the Council of Trent, and that Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich is unquestionably "collaborating" with Joseph Stalin. Concluded he: "Anyone called upon for advice will have to search his conscience: does he wish to lend his hand to the political game, or does he prefer to live by the word of the Gospel: 'Judge not, that ye be not judged...
Last week on a beautiful Indian Summer afternoon, Composer Krenek's latest opus, a musical pie called Piano Concerto No. 2, was set before Boston's dowagers and debutantes at a Boston Symphony concert in Boston's Symphony Hall. Stocky Ernest Krenek himself sat hungrily up to the piano. Conductor Koussevitzky was ill, so it fell to Concertmaster Richard Burgin to dish it up. When the pie was opened and the bats began to squeak, the audience could hear that Composer Krenek had been true to his atonality, and in his own fashion. A dozen Bostonians...
...over, U. S. Composer Roy Harris, who had sat it out, sniffed: "I should say the piece was 19th-Century German Romantic." Confused Bostonians, looking everywhere but under the seats for the romanticism, found a will o' the wisp clue in their program notes, where Composer Krenek's own words told them: "At the end of the piece the piano seems to remove all traces of solidity, the orchestra reverts to the indistinct sounds of the high violins which introduced the work . . . leading the music back to the remoteness whence it came...