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...unfamiliar, spread-out country world seems full of traps and tortures. Night after night, as he makes his way home through a neighboring cluster of houses, two huge dogs vault a fence and savagely escort him, his wrist held wetly in the lead dog's teeth. Caterpillars munch away half of every shrub and tree on the place. "This house has been standing here for thirty years with whole shrubs," Stern moans. "We're in it a month and there are halves...
Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet (Mezzo-Soprano Rosalind Elias, Tenor Cesare Va-letti, Bass Giorgio Tozzi; the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Munch; RCA Victor, 2 LPs). Berlioz' "symphony with chorus" is given a soaring, beautifully proportioned reading by Munch, and all three soloists contribute performances that are almost without flaw. As satisfactory a performance as the work is likely to find...
...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...
Controlled Nostalgia. There was scant surprise in Boston when Leinsdorf was appointed Munch's successor; he had already made an excellent impression on both orchestra and public in guest appearances. If there was surprise elsewhere, it was only that he would be willing to give up the opera conducting that has been such an important part of his career. But despite the fact that he had started in opera-first at Salzburg, later at the Metropolitan Opera, to which he was invited in 1937-Leinsdorf found when the Boston invitation came that "my nostalgia for opera is well controlled...