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...walked onstage, moving crabwise around the pianos, the members of the audience at Manhattan's Town Hall rose in a spontaneous ovation. Igor Stravinsky turned to face them, ducked his head with a shy smile, the light tilting off his glasses. Then he stepped up on the podium to receive a different kind of ovation from four of the U.S.'s leading practitioners of his own art: Composers Lukas Foss, 37, Aaron Copland, 59, Roger Sessions, 62, Samuel Barber, 49. Seated at four grand pianos, two on each side of the stage, the four were assembled to play...
...series of four planned by Columbia Records to display Stravinsky's music. The old man led his forces - in addition to the pianos, four solo singers, a chorus and an assortment of percussion instruments -with a passion and vigor that left his audience breathless. Standing spiderlike on the podium, he raised clenched fists or clawed the air with splayed fingers, setting the hall alive with the violently percussive rhythms, the clipped vocal phrases, the primary colorations that once made his ritualistic evocation of a peasant wedding such a shocking piece of musical theater. But last week's audience...
...Russian-born or Russian-speaking musicians. During rehearsals, the Russians filed into the side balcony of Symphony Hall, leaned intently over the railing, and watched Conductor Charles Munch. Kabalevsky and Composer Aaron Copland (who rehearsed his own suite from The Tender Land) alternate on the podium...
...began to turn out plans for buildings whose distinguishing features are precast concrete coaxed into graceful curves and lacelike delicacy, a box-shaped podium for a base, a surrounding pool, a gemlike skylight. "In our buildings,'' says Yamasaki, "we try to think of what happens to a human being as he goes from space to space, and to provide the delight of change and surprise...
Musical Revolution. Never before had a conductor in Russia lectured his audience from the podium. But Bernstein, being Bernstein, wanted everyone to know the fine points of Charles Ives's 1908 The Unanswered Question, and with help from a translator gave a brief talk before leading his musicians through the intricate, dissonant piece. The effect was electric. So great was the applause that Bernstein played it again. He gave a second chat before playing Stravinsky's Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, and still a third for the composer's Le Sacre du Printemps, explaining that...