Word: munches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...assurance and ardor that bordered on fanaticism." L'Aurore's critic said, "Never before have we heard anything comparable to the sumptuous sonority of the strings and mordant quality of the trumpets." Said one Boston musician: "We did our best because we realized what it meant to Munch and Monteux to play in Paris...
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...