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...orchestra that played the work-the Boston Symphony. The 104 musicians of the Boston had started their first European visit in a muddle over housing arrangements. The men wanted to shift for themselves, rebelled against a plan to billet them all in one hotel. Their conductor, Charles Munch, solved the problem in a hurry: "I don't care whether you gentlemen sleep together. What matters to me is that you play together...
Play together they did. In their first appearance at Paris' international Festival of the Arts, they offered modern French (Roussel, Honegger) and American (Barber, Piston) music, and left the audience (including President Auriol) shouting itself hoarse. In courtly appreciation, the orchestra and Conductor Munch broke a long-standing symphonic rule and played an encore. Two nights later came the success of Monteux, Stravinsky and The Rite of Spring...
Although Monteux is 77, he does not intend to stop conducting. He will lead the Boston Symphony, as associate conductor with Charles Munch, during a European tour next month. And this summer he will conduct in Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium, at Tanglewood and at Chicago's Ravinia Park, and run his conducting school in Maine. He is booked at home & abroad straight through the spring...
...traditional Easter concert with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society combined forces to sing Bach's St. John's Passion, under the direction of Charles Munch...
Schumann: Symphony No. 1 (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch conducting; Victor, 2 sides LP). Munch's glowing performance captures some of the white-hot inspiration that Robert Schumann must have felt when he composed this "Spring" symphony in four days. Recording: excellent...