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After last week's Carnegie Hall performance by the Boston Symphony, the critics emerged dazed, uncertain, but impressed. The Times's Olin Downes wrote, somewhat existentially, that one "wonders whether many pages of the score are not symbolic rather than expressive, or attemptedly expressive, of what cannot be communicated." The Herald Tribune's Paul Henry Lang found the work a "serious, moving and convincing piece." On one point, most of the critics were agreed: they wanted to hear Barber's Prayers of Kierkegaard again...
...music was, to many listeners, acrobatic, unyielding and overdissonant, hardly the kind of thing to herald a new performer. But the New York Times's Olin Downes published a rave. "The pianist who adequately performs the part needs endless strength, swiftness and must be something of a cyclone at the keyboard . . . Mr. Scarpini fulfilled the requirements ... a pianist of prodigious capacities . . . whirlwind virtuosity and rhythmic drive." The rest of the press agreed...
What Makes Olin Sick. As it turned out, a great many Americans agreed with Wilson's main point-that it is dangerous to use defense spending as a means to prosperity and full employment. But few bothered to check what Wilson had said...
Democrats called Charlie Wilson "revolting . . . inhuman . . . brutal." South Carolina's Senator Olin Johnston said he "makes me sick with fear." At week's end, in his first and only speech of the campaign, former President Harry Truman labeled Wilson's words "the attitude of too many big-business spokesmen in the Republican Party." In Buffalo the C.I.O. handed jobless men cans of dog food...
...York Philharmonic-Symphony gave the first American performance of Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony last week and got a divided press. "Obviously the strongest and greatest symphony that Shostakovich has yet produced," cheered the New York Times's Olin Downes. "Sprawling, noisy, lacking in coherent style and even culture," complained the Herald Tribune's new critic, Paul Henry Lang. SHOSTAKOVICH GOOFS, headlined the slangy Daily News...