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Tale with Tears. Mounting the podium with extreme solemnity, Khrushchev spoke for three hours with great care and feeling-and sometimes in tears. His first words were to praise Stalin: in the early days, said Khrushchev, Stalin was a devoted and truly great servant of the party, and in the decade after Lenin's death (1924) his leadership was indispensable. But in the last 19 years of his life Stalin had done enormous harm to the party, the Soviet Union and the Soviet people...
...startled by such a homecoming after a European concert tour. So were his welcomers. The "prohibited imports" strewn through Goossens' luggage: some 1,100 "indecent" photographs, several naughty books and movie films, three strange rubber masks. On his own request, Sir Eugene was "temporarily" relieved of his podium. At the moment his wife was holed up in a convent near Paris. One of his daughters. Sidonie, commented sadly: "My father has not been well lately...
...Carlos Chavez is Mexico's No.1 man of music and one of the world's important composers. In 20 stormy years on the podium of his country's first major symphony orchestra, he introduced Mexico to as much Bach as Stravinsky-and almost as much Chavez. As a young composer he tilted with everything from mechanized music, in his ballet H.P. (horsepower), to severe abstractions, with such names as Polygons and Hexagons, to music for native instruments. Last week Composer Chavez led the New York PhilharmonicSymphony Orchestra in the first U.S. performance of his Sinfonia...
...podium offscreen was Musical Director Peter Herman Adler, wearing a particularly abstracted look because the music of his orchestra impinged directly on one ear, while the singing of the distant cast and chorus entered his other ear through a headphone. If he wanted to see how the action looked, he peeked at a nearby monitor TV screen. He was also watched by a TV camera, and his image was flashed on monitor screens in the chorus room and at various points in the block-long onetime movie studio that served as the stage. There, relay conductors glued their eyes...
Composer Roy Harris lay, right leg from hip to toe in plaster, in a Pittsburgh hospital after an automobile accident, but his spirit was with Conductor Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra as they rehearsed for their first performance of his Seventh Symphony. On the podium Ormandy read Harris' letter explaining how to play the music. Excerpts...