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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux conducting; Victor, 2 sides LP). Retiring San Francisco Symphony Conductor Monteux cuts himself a fitting memorial. He gave this still fierce-sounding work its riotous Paris première 37 years ago; here, leading the orchestra with which he began his U.S. symphonic career in 1919, he surely equals the fire and versatility of that first performance. Recording: excellent...
...Tiomkin. Two years ago, excerpts from the Tamkin work were presented in Portland, Ore. Last season the New York City Opera scheduled a production, but postponed it "for economy." Last week the Tamkin Dybbuk finally found fulfillment, and Manhattan's City Center Theater was packed for the world premi...
Blaik's informal talk at Leone's Restaurant in Manhattan-which brought out more cameramen and curious sidewalk neck-craners than usually attend a motion-picture première-was, in many ways, a restrained and gentlemanly performance. The coach, a West Pointer ('20) himself, made no attempt to play on the emotions of his audience. He spoke sadly of the cadets' mistakes, but defended their characters and pleaded that they be allowed to leave the Academy with their reputations unbesmirched...
...Little Girl." Last week the audience at Florence's May Festival heard Composer Dallapiccola's latest and most ambitious work, his opera Il Prigioniero (The Prisoner), which had its première on the Italian radio last year...
Fabulous Creation. "Happy days are here again," cried the New York Times's scholarly Brooks Atkinson after Carol's Broadway premiére. "Let us call her portrait of the aureate Lee the most fabulous comic creation of this dreary period in history." "Carol Channing," trilled the Herald Tribune's often harsh-voiced Howard Barnes, "serves notice that she has few peers among musical-comedy actresses." Even before these rhadamanthine judgments were pronounced, Carol's out-of-town notices had set the box office of Manhattan's Ziegfeld Theater humming with the biggest advance seat...