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...Rogers rodeo. NBC will also give opera, ballet and concert-hall music their biggest boost as popular art forms with the Sadler's Wells Ballet's Cinderella, Puccini's La Boheme, Verdi's La Traviata, Beethoven's Fidelio, the world premiere of Prokofiev's War and Peace and Sol Hurok's Music Festival. Producer Max Liebman will try to develop Comic Buddy Hackett as a top comedian with a half-hour comedy series...
...Tabuh-Tabuhan, had a grand total of three performances between its creation, 20 years ago, and the time it came out on records (Mercury) this summer. Since then, at least half a dozen groups have made plans to perform it. Most popular modern composers on disks: Bartok, Prokofiev, Stravinsky...
Concert of three of the most meaty and grand violin-and-piano sonatas in Paine Hall Friday: the Brahms A-Major, Prokofiev D-Major, and Bee-thoven C-Minor. More laurels to Dunster pianist Robert Freeman for the impeccable and consistently compelling performance that we have come to expect of him. Violinist David Spencer, a Wesleyan junior, left much to be desired. His playing lacked tension, was matter-of-fact and on the surface, and at times harsh and out of tune. He is definitely no Heifetz or Hurwitz...
...next work, Bach's knuckle-busting G Minor Sonata, is a test for any violinist. Violinist Oistrakh seemed to anticipate it with both distaste and fear and played as if to get it over with. It was, however, the evening's only disappointment. After works by Prokofiev, Szymanowski and Saint-Saëns, the audience dissolved in cheers...
...Piano Concerto No. 1 by Los Angeles' young (32) Benjamin Lees, neatly played by Alexander Jenner and the Konzerthaus audience liked it better than anything else on the program. It sounded well-padded and fluent, comfortably conservative in its rhythmic patterns. It was often reminiscent of Prokofiev, had a satisfying amount of orchestral razzle-dazzle and was, all in all, a pretty piece. The audience indicated that it would not mind hearing more of Benjamin Lees...