Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soprano Margaret Truman, bedizened with full stage makeup, opened Atlanta's concert season by packing every one of the Municipal Auditorium's 5,000 seats, plus 100 chairs placed in the orchestra pit for the overflow...
Then, in the tiny (550 seats) auditorium of the Ridgefield, Conn, high school, he led his orchestra, proud, gay and beaming, through a typical "pop" concert program that his concert and radio audiences seldom hear him play. While kids and grown-ups sat enthralled, he gave them Saint-Saëns' bone-rattling Danse Macabre; he made Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony glow with Italian sunlight, Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun shimmer sensually. By the time he had sailed through one of his own light favorites, Waldteufel's Skaters' Waltz, the audience could...
...last word . . . superb musician . . . we're all very happy." Said new Conductor Münch himself in tentative English: the orchestra was "good," the enthusiasm from the audience "difficile" to explain...
...there were usually 80 or 90 men in the stands on Saturday afternoons. Among them were Malcolm H. Holmes, '28, the band's present director, and Leroy Anderson '28, now a famous arranger. Holmes banged the base drum at Soldiers Field, but played the violin in the orchestra at other times...
Munch seems to take considerable liberties with his classical music. Long dramatic pauses, and abrupt changes in tempo sound a mite strange. In the third movement of the Beethoven, there were moments of uncertainty in the Orchestra, signs of the difficult change of interpretation. But it is nothing serious, and Munch's first concert indicates that Symphony Hall is going to be rocked back on its heels in the weeks to come...