Word: munch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally came the virtuoso Boston Symphony with 103 members. Conductor Charles Munch built his program around a rugged performance of Beethoven's Fourth. It was the Boston's ninth Manhattan visit of the season...
...orchestral score was exactly what Berlioz devotees had expected--gorgeous splashes of sound mingled with subdued, lyrical melodies. Charles Munch conducted the music of his countryman with deep understanding, although his occasional over-emphasis of inner voices sometimes blotted out the main line. This was especially noticeable in the more vigorous passages of the second movement. But his passionate interpretation of the Love Scene was perfect...
...them, said Malskat, set up a regular production line for phony masters. Working steadily, even after they were commissioned to restore St. Mary's frescoes in 1948, they copied such masters as Degas, Corot, Gauguin, Renoir, Rousseau, Chagall, Munch, Utrillo. Malskat did all of the work; sometimes he copied famous old paintings, sometimes just imitated the style of old masters. He could do one in a day, got so good at the French impressionists that they took less than an hour. Fey forged the signature to paintings, said Malskat, then went out to peddle the fakes to German...
...Still, Munch is a perfectionist. The string session had to play a passage from Roussel's Ballet Suite Le Festin de L'Araignee four times before it attained the precise dynamic contrast Munch wanted. Otherwise, the orchestra got through the rather dull score without mishap...
Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto was both the highlight and the lowlight of the evening. The orchestra was vigorous and forceful; Munch conducted with sweeping brilliance. But pianist Leila Goussean was as miscast playing the Emperor as Pier Angrli would be, playing Moby Dick. It takes a man--a strong man--to make this showy, difficult concerto come to life...