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Your Song and Mine (Wed. 9 p.m., CBS). Guest: Dorothy Maynor...
Almost everything went wrong at the Hollywood Bowl. Soprano Dorothy Maynor, the guest star, canceled her engagement because her mother had just died. A substitute chorus was ill-prepared, and a pinch-hitting baritone had to fall back on 01' Man River. So the U.S. debut last week of a talented Negro conductor, Rudolph Dunbar, 39, was a grim experience for everyone but him. Critics praised his crisp, authoritative conducting of the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra...
...since Serge Koussevitzky introduced Negro Soprano Dorothy Maynor in 1939 had there been such a buzz of anticipation in the Berkshires. Six thousand musical pilgrims, who had bought their tickets weeks in advance, sat shivering in Tanglewood's Music Shed. Outside, in the chilly evening, another 2,000 huddled in the dew-covered grass. They were gathered to hear the U.S. premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's new Ninth Symphony...
...Dorothy Maynor's anthology of sacred music (DM 1043) is, unfortunately a collection of rather easily obtainable selections from Mozart, Bach, Handel, and Mondelssohn. Her interpretations and performances of them are reasonably good but do not reveal either the inspiration or the vocal proficiency of which Miss Maynor is probably capable. Accompaniment by The Victor Orchestra is only mediocre. Recording is good...
...halfway back. Last week, at the annual club concert, Conductor Serge Koussevitzky led the orchestra through a typical free-treat program-a bit of Mozart, a bit of Berlioz. Then he shooed the orchestra off stage, began a short speech in Russian-coated English: "Our Boston Symphony discovered Dorothy Maynor. Today we discover another great singer-Carol Brice. I hope very soon this artist will also be as great as Dorothy Maynor...