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...audience one night last week at the Berkshire Festival had a special treat: Eleanor Roosevelt made her musical debut as the narrator in Prokofiev's symphonic fable, Peter and the Wolf. The First Lady emeritus, who had arrived to rehearse only that morning, read her score (solo passages underlined in black ink, lines with orchestral accompaniment in red) with a mellow distinctness, never missed a cue. The audience called her back for five rousing curtain calls. Said Conductor Serge Koussevitzky ecstatically: "Now the First Lady of the world is not only a grandmother to her own grandchildren, but, through...
...Stadium and its Carnegie Hall opening in October, the Philharmonic will play two weeks of four 45-minute shows a day in Manhattan's huge (6,000 seats) Roxy Theater. The first week's program, on a bill which includes Tyrone Power in The Black Rose: Wagner, Prokofiev, Puccini, Mendelssohn, De Falla...
Word got around that Eleanor Roosevelt had taken on yet another chore: come August, she will be the narrator for Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf to the kids at the Berkshire Festival. Meanwhile, landing in London after a tour of the Continent, she planted a warm buss on the cheek of her hostess, the Dowager Marchioness of Reading...
Dello Joio (TIME, May 22) manages to write charmingly and effectively for the harp without sounding too much like either Debussy or Ravel. On the other side of the record, David Diamond's Music for Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" sounds like little more than warmed-over Prokofiev. Both performances and recordings: good...
Cumberland Music Festival (Sat. 1:30 p.m., NBC). First of a new series of modern chamber music by Samuel Barber, Bela Bartok, Sergei Prokofiev, others...