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Boston Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis conducts Stephen Bishop, piano in works by Mozart, 2 p.m. Feb. 17 and 8:30 Feb. 19. Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Ralph Gomberg, oboe, in works by Haydn and Mahler...
Starting out at a campus concert at suburban Cerritos College, the orchestra invited the audience to pick the second half of the program from 23 classics. Among them were the Mahler First Symphony and Beethoven's Third, Fifth, Seventh and Eighth. Even though the audience was composed largely of supposedly hip students, the winners were Ravel's hoary Boléro and Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet overture...
...experiment soon led to a bit of unseemly partisan politicking. At one concert at U.C.L.A., members of a local "Schroeder Society" demonstrated for Beethoven, while lads and lasses in Mahler T shirts joined the good-natured battle by passing out "Vote for Gustav" leaflets. When the dust had settled, Mahler was the victor-by a single vote. Analysts pointed out that Beethoven might have triumphed had not his supporters split their vote among the four symphonies...
...student organizations is the eighty-five piece Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Even the HRO is changing: in a burst of self-assertion, the orchestra has done away with the concerto contest. In its place is a concerto open-rehearsal, leaving more time for non-accompaniment orchestral playing. With Hindemith and Mahler on the opening concert October 29. Professor James Yannatos is presenting a different style from last year's HRO fare. The orchestra plans to work with the Loeb Drama Center in the spring...
Those credentials have hemidemisemi-quavers of Alma Mahler, who also combined personal beauty and an intellectual signal that achievers found irresistible. But Gilliatt's life has no such grand Viennese design. The first major film critic since James Agee to enjoy distinction as a scenarist, she has become something of a recluse, both in her life and work. The prominent are never the subjects of her fiction, so far almost twoscore polished short stories and two novels, largely about the odd, unfashionable characters whom Anthony Burgess reviewed as "defiantly interesting...