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...EVENING AT TANGLEWOOD (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.).* Live from the Boston Symphony's summer home in Massachusetts' Berkshires, Erich Leinsdorf conducts the orchestra and Guest Solo Violinist Itzhak Perlman in selections from Mozart, Dvorak, Tchaikowsky and Saint-Saens...
Since then, the discarded original version has been performed rarely-and, as far as is known, never in the Western Hemisphere. But two years ago, Boston Symphony Conductor Erich Leinsdorf found a copy of the 1805 score in a Prague bookshop, was struck by its "awe-inspiring" power, and thought it would make an effective concert presentation at the Boston Symphony's summer home at Tanglewood, near Lenox, Mass. Last week, afier Leinsdorf conducted a boldly sculptured, energy-charged U.S. premiere of the work at Tanglewood, it was emphatically clear that he had been right...
...already made an impressive name for himself in the concert circuit. This is his recording debut, and it confirms his growing prestige. He manages to make Prokofiev's percussive, rather frantic concerto sing, and his considerate understanding of Sibelius' darkly sad Romanticism is powerful. Conductor Erich Leinsdorf's Boston Symphony gives Perlman rich support...
...Frightened Bourbon censors forced the composer to switch the locale of his rather gloomy tale (about the assassination of Sweden's 18th century King Gustav III) to exotic Massachusetts and to dramatize instead the assassination of the "Governor of Boston." Conducted appropriately by Boston's Erich Leinsdorf, this version stars the lush vocal beauty of Leontyne Price, supported by a mostly American cast, including Robert Merrill, Shirley Verrett and Reri Grist. Carlo Bergonzi provides appropriate Italianate grace as the doomed governor...
...Erich Leinsdorf, L.H.D., music director, Boston Symphony Orchestra...