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...Celebration of Women" was more than an evening of good music. Women composers do indeed exist - and then some. One concert does not, of course, make a revolution. With that in mind, Pierre Boulez and the Philhar monic have already scheduled for later this season works by two other women, Barbara Kolb and Lucia Dlugoszewski. Any other takers...
Eugene List (Sun. 3 p. m. CBS) plays Franck's Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra, Anis Fuleihan's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the New York Philhar-monic-Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting. Also Bach's Suite in D Major, No. 3, Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, Wagner's prelude to Die Meistersinger...
...what we write, when boiled down, amounts to but little more than saying that it was performed better or worse than it was the last time we heard it. Reduce any average newspaper music critique to its lowest terms, and you will arrive at something like this: 'The Symphar-monic Orchestra gave a concert last night in Carnegie Hall. Mr. Damfurt-berg, this week's guest conductor, gave a perfectly terrible performance of Weber's Oberon overture, and a very good one of those Handel concerti grossi. He took the first movement of Chykovsky's* Fifth Symphony faster than...
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