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Essentially, as Boston Symphony Conductor Erich Leinsdorf points out, the problem "is a loss of identity." Because they can offer an opportunity for more individual expression, he says, "the universities are our biggest competition...
WAGNER: LOHENGRIN (5 LPs; RCA Victor). An ambitious production by Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony that is only partially successful. Leinsdorf manages crowd scenes like a musical DeMille, so that sequences like the gathering of the clans in the second act are wonderfully exciting. In the title role, Sandor Konya conveys a gentle, human Lohengrin, and William Dooley makes a rich-voiced, menacing Telramund. But the female roles-usually easier to fill-are not nearly so satisfying. Rita Gorr is cruelly miscast as Ortrud, and Lucine Amara's voice is not big enough for the crucial role...
...cellist was "exceptional," declared Boston Symphony Concertmaster Joseph Silverstein. The pianist played "as well as anybody need ever play," said Conductor Erich Leinsdorf. The soloists who won these praises from such rigorous judges were not big concert stars but virtually unknown American students: New York City's Stephen Kates, 23, and Los Angeles' Misha Dichter, 20, both fresh from winning silver medals at the Third International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow...
...Leinsdorf noted later that Dichter approached the concerto not as if it were an old war horse but as a new piece: "He goes back to the printed instructions of the composer. He does not add a number of silly things which have become traditional." Said Concertmaster Silverstein: "Seldom has the orchestra been so impressed with a single performer...
...AFTERNOON AT TANGLEWOOD (NBC, 2:30-5 p.m.). An NBC News Special live, from the Berkshire Festival at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass. The program includes Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra and solo performances by Pianist Misha Dichter and Violinist Masuko Yushioda, both winners of the Third International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow...