Word: munched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, audiences attending the weekly concerts of the Boston Symphony had stared at the unruly, silvering thatch of Conductor Charles Munch; for 25 years before that, the thatch had been that of Conductor Serge Koussevitzky. Last week, when the Boston appeared at Manhattan's new Philharmonic Hall, the man on the podium was Erich Leinsdorf-thatchless and in impeccable control of his orchestra. Few who listened doubted that one of the most distinguished eras in the orchestra's history had begun...
Serge Koussevitzky played on the Boston with Slavic ardor, kindling it to its best efforts in Russian works or in the epic grandeurs of Beethoven and Sibelius. Charles Munch tuned its voice to the French composers, infusing it with a certain Gallic grace. Leinsdorf, 50, is Viennese-born but internationally bred, and he will presumably make the Boston speak a more international tongue-well-modulated, clear and precise. Although a great orchestra does not change its accent overnight, the Boston played with wonderful clarity and precision last week, responding to Leinsdorf's tick-tock beat with hair-trigger reflexes...
...nude ladies and boasts a circular bed surrounded by a curtain of beads, or in Room 908 in Ascot House, which is decorated in Japanese style and comes complete with kimonos for its occupants. Ascot House also has a sidewalk cafe and a Cafe French Market where patrons may munch such Continental delicacies as escargots and bouillabaisse Marseillaise ($4.25), served by bus boys and bellhops in jockey silks...
Sunday, August 19: 10 a.m. Chamber Music Hall - Friends Event BMC Chamber Music 2:30 p.m. Shed - Boston Symphony Orchestra - Conductor: Charles Munch - Schubert: Symphony No. 5 - Foss: Time Cycle (Addison) - Conducted by the composer - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Graffman...
Friday, August 17: 3:15 p.m. Chamber Music Hall - Friends Event Aspects of Music 8 p.m. Shed - Boston Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Charles Munch. Kirchner: Sinfonia Conducted by the Composer; Berlioz: Harold in Italy (de Pasquale) - Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5, Reformation...