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...Igor and Dagmar "would sit for hours sipping Dubonnet while he unburdened himself" and inveighed against his critics. "Why do they blame me for my music?" he would rage. "Why don't they blame God? He gave me my gifts!" His mother refused to attend the famed Paris première of the Sacre du Printemps because, she said, "I don't think it's my kind of music...
...last week was special; he was making his first appearance with the New York Philharmonic since his appointment as its new permanent conductor and musical director. Lennie spent the weekend whipping Dmitry Shostakovich's new Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra into final shape for its U.S. premi...
...approaching Igor Stravinsky's new ballet Agon, in première at the New York City Center last week, is through a kind of game. The game: listening to the score alone (on an excellent new Columbia disk) and trying to imagine what a choreographer could possibly make of it. Here and there the music suggests images of human activity. Fanfares sound: Are they bugle calls for some grand but ragged army? A truncated funeral march is heard: Is a man or an age being mourned? A troubadour's mandolin sounds a little sour: Is love being mocked...
...Moscow première was performed by the Soviet State Symphony Orchestra, under Conductor Nathan Rakhlin, in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, which was packed with 3,000 people. The four movements were played without a break. None of the music came as a surprise to Soviet bigwigs in the audience. It had had its world première shortly before in Leningrad, and just to be absolutely sure everything sounded the way it ought to, Composer Shostakovich had previewed the symphony on the piano for a picked group of Moscow's upper-echelon music lovers...
...Convinced that he had been persecuted by McCarthyism, Red-liner Chaplin decided to deprive the U.S. of one of the few authentic geniuses produced by the movies. Last week a new Chaplin film, A King in New York, which may never be shown in the U.S., had its world première in London. Cries of "Good old Charlie!" and "Isn't he sweet?" greeted Chaplin from a dressy charity crowd in diamonds and dinner jackets. But though the crowd liked Chaplin, it was less than enthusiastic about the movie. Said the Manchester Guardian: "To watch a new Chaplin...