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...music, descriptive of the IndoChinese New Year's Day, savored strongly of the Orient, with moments of mysterious atmosphere, trombone blasts to describe a "menacing tiger," rumbling drums for a "creeping dragon," and an anthem-like "Song of Hope" for its finale. Said Conductor Jean Martinon: "A very nice talent...
...planned to include at least one composition from each nation in good standing, so that delegates heard representative new music from each nation, if not always the best music newly written. Critics felt the difference, deplored the festival's lack of a "genius," but pronounced Frenchman Jean Martinon's String Quartet, Op. 43 first-rate, Englishman Humphrey Searle's Poem for 22 Strings pretty good. Festival shocker: Le Soleil des Eaux, a surrealistic, twelve-tone composition for soprano, tenor, bass and orchestra by the current bad boy of French music, Pierre Boulez, 27. It puzzled even...
Prokofiev: Concerto No. I (Andor Foldes, pianist, with the Lamoureux Orchestra, M. Martinon conducting; Vox, 1 side LP). This concerto, bold, brittle and brilliant, proves how formidable a composer the contemporary Russian master was, even at 20. Foldes gives it a fresh and clean performance. Recording: good...