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...kind of uproar that sent Gieseking home in 1949. He has recorded most of the Beethoven sonatas in the past (for Polydor), but the Decca disks are new and marked by lustrous tone and silent surfaces. Kempff plays with splendid seriousness in the diabolical Hammerklavier, delivers such lighter sonatas as Op. 2, No. 3 with a hint of mischief. Twelve of his performances have been released on six LPs; the rest will be out next month...
...Pickett remarked that little or no information was available about M.I.T., but "the way we're playing, any team would be tough." The absence of team coordination and experience that has plagued Pickett all year was painfully apparent during the first half of Saturday's game when a lighter, but more experienced Tabor Academy squad held the Yardlings to a tie. After a half-time tongue-lashing, the squad showed what it could do when pressed...
Four songs by Yehudi Wyner, 1G, received the most appreciative applause of the evening. Although Brownie, based on a poem by A. A. Milne, was described as being in a "lighter vein," it is in fact a graphic representation of a small child's momentary terror of the unknown. The composer tellingly recreates the image of the poem--a child's imaginary view of the sinister "Brownie," dispelled by the interjection of a companion--by a parallel tension and relaxation of the musical line. When You Are Old And Gray, based on a poem by Yeats, is a beautifully conceived...
...everyone took fifteen minutes out for a cigarette. Then Bernstein returned to rehearse parts of Sibelius' Fifth Symphony. This time Bernstein tailored his gestures to the varied moods of the music. During strident passages he reached out toward the orchestra as if to grab handfuls of sound; during the lighter moments he bounced up and down and flapped his arms like a happy bird...
Veined with gentle ribaldry and stocked with bizarre supporting characters, The Duke of Gallodoro is a fictional lighter-than-air craft. Except for some overtalky bits, it offers some of the choicest summer reading of the winter...