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...Boston Symphony Orchestra's Conductor Charles Munch, the new concerto was "horribly difficult," but it had its good features; it "exploited the orchestra very adroitly, used the modern language" effectively and, altogether, it was "très intéressant." Pudgy Violinist Isaac Stern agreed. He had "worked and worked until the music was part of me." When his fiddling was finished, he grinned up into the balcony of Symphony Hall, then hammed his exit offstage, staggering as if brutally exhausted. Up in the balcony, smiling Composer William Schuman seemed satisfied with the rehearsal for the world premiere...
...listener the concerto seemed "somewhat like a surrealistic painting-with familiar and beautiful forms in unfamiliar relationships and in a dreamlike atmosphere." Another subtitled it "The id in search of itself." One Boston critic found it "crabbed and harshly dissonant"; another "wanting likability" and "without heart." But beaming Conductor Munch thought that "with Bartok, Berg and Bloch, it is one of the most important concerti." Bill Schuman himself, remembering the "practically silence" he once got in Boston, was mighty pleased with 2½ minutes of applause...
...Virgil Thomson you quote as prophet (he prophesied that Munch would eventually lead the Boston Orchestra) apparently has no standing with you as a critic . . . Virgil Thomson says that the Philadelphia Orchestra is "certainly the finest orchestra, I think, now playing in America, which means anywhere...
...usual ... I leafed thru page by page . . . On page 42 there was a picture of Madame Munch & Pompey. My thought...
...Conductor Munch says that his dog is an Irish Airedale, sometimes also known as a Welsh terrier (which is what TIME called him). Madame Munch says that Pompey is a pedigreed Airedale. TIME'S Boston correspondent says that the dog weighs a good 40 Ibs., is mostly grey, and is unlike the Airedales he grew up with...