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...faced Conductor Reiner walked onto the stage of Philadelphia's Academy of Music, acknowledged the orchestra's standing tribute with a frozen smile and launched into a program that included Berlioz' Overture to Beatrice and Benedict, Mozart's "Linz" Symphony, Ravel's Rapsodie Esbagnole, Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5. Although Reiner had rehearsed the orchestra only three times, his performance was a stunning revelation...
...Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé (Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fritz Reiner; RCA Victor). The most durable of modern movie scores gets a chiseled performance by Conductor Reiner's fine orchestra, which admirably illuminates all of the music's dry wit without detracting from its romping exuberance...
...Such noted U.S. composers as Aaron Copland (The Heiress) and Leonard Bernstein (On the Waterfront) have written distinguished film music. Some composers have used films as the inspiration for music that has become part of the concert repertory, e.g., Sergei Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky and Lieutenant Kije, Virgil Thomson's Louisiana Story. *The others: Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Francis Poulenc, Germaine Tailleferre, Louis Durey...
...years ago when he won Belgium's International Concours. Nowadays when the three are in Manhattan together, they reserve Steinway's basement on 57th Street every free evening and test new pianos ("We are always on the lookout for pianos that are good for Mozart and also Prokofiev") and play for one another until midnight. When one of the trio is playing well, there is nothing but the sound of the piano in the basement; when one is playing badly, there are shouts and threats: "You dirty pig, why don't you practice...
...Guild promised everyone champagne punch at intermission, and apologized for serving it in paper cups. The New York Philharmonic, whose far less serene opening had come two days late because of a musicians' strike for more pay, last week featured gifted young (27) Thomas Schippers conducting Cherubini and Prokofiev symphonies. The Kansas City Philharmonic, lucky to make its 25th season despite a big deficit, was out to win new fans by playing in movie houses, churches, synagogues and high-school auditoriums (one concert will be sponsored by the Katz Drug Co.; admittance: a cash-register receipt). Manhattan...