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...Boston premiere of a new symphony by Walter Piston highlighted the pair of concerts given last weekend by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch conducting. The symphony, Mr. Piston's fourth, was commissioned by the University of Minnesota and first performed as part of that school's centennial celebration in the spring...
This is the 72nd season of the Boston Symphony. Surely by now the orchestra must feel secure enough in its renown to venture beyond the limits of the conventional concert program. Bartok, Stravinsky, Milhaud. Berg, Britten, Piston: shall we have to wait two more generations before they appear on a concert program as something more than rare curiosa? And Corelli, Vivaldi. Buxtehude, Palestrina, Monteverdi: shall we hear them only in recording or at rare chamber concerts...
...Planes whose turbines drive propellers. They fly slower than the pure jets (but on less fuel) and are much faster than the comparable piston planes...
...Doges' Palace sat the 88-piece La Fenice Theater Orchestra; on the podium stood the U.S.'s most active musical ambassador to Europe, Manhattan-born Conductor Dean Dixon, 37; on the racks, instead of the usual outdoor fare, was music by modern composers, e.g., Walter Piston, Bernard Herrmann, Benjamin Britten...
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...