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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux conducting; Victor, 2 sides LP). Retiring San Francisco Symphony Conductor Monteux cuts himself a fitting memorial. He gave this still fierce-sounding work its riotous Paris première 37 years ago; here, leading the orchestra with which he began his U.S. symphonic career in 1919, he surely equals the fire and versatility of that first performance. Recording: excellent...
...best things about Papa Monteux's pedagogy: "He paid no attention at all to what his younger conductors looked like from behind...
...years, walrus-mustached Pierre Monteux, conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, has spent part of each summer teaching younger musicians to conduct. Last week, after a visit to "Papa" Monteux's 1951 class (50 students) in Hancock, Me., the New York Herald, Tribune's Critic Virgil Thomson wrote a report on how he does...
...Monteux sat in the orchestra . . . [and] nobody, literally nobody got away with anything. Amiably, charmingly, insistently, Monteux corrected every fault." Sample corrections...
...Ravinia Music Festival, Highland Park, Ill.: Budapest String Quartet, Jan Peerce, guests; William Steinberg, De Sabata, Monteux, Mitropoulos conducting...