Word: raveled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mostly, the Poles stamped for the same old warhorses the Clevelanders had played elsewhere-Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Strauss's Don Juan, excerpts from a Ravel Daphnis and Chloö suite. There was little stamping-only applause-for newer works (by Wallingford Riegger, Samuel Barber, Paul Creston, Bela Bartok). Said Dziennik Polski: "The Cleveland Orchestra plays like one magnificent soloist . . . A thing like yesterday's concert was never before seen or heard here...
Career No. 3, the piano, almost gets lost between the other two, but Bernstein is a strongly talented pianist and probably could be a great one if he took the time (currently his piano repertory includes only half a dozen concertos). At Carnegie Hall last month, he played Ravel's Piano Concerto in G ? after five months without so much as five hours of practice ? while conducting the orchestra from the key board. The critics raved: "Miracle in music . . . absolute perfection...
...Lennie was the life of a thousand parties. "I just ran for the piano," he recalls, "as soon as I got in the door, and stayed there until they threw me out. It was as though I didn't exist without music.'' He played anything and everything from Ravel to riverboat. at sight or from memory. He barreled through the local public library's scores of the great operas and croaked the male parts while his sister Shirley shrilled the upper registers? and mother and father sat and wondered helplessly what God had wrought...
...butterfly collector and strict vegetarian who ranked with the world's best pianists; after surgery for pancreatitis; in London. He became known to post-World War I audiences for his subtlety, grace and color, rather than for flashing technique, rose to greatness as an interpreter of Debussy and Ravel, played gladly for German audiences during the Nazi reign, was greeted by jeering pickets on his first postwar tour of the U.S., returned to Germany without playing, later toured in the U.S. successfully...
French-born Conductor Charles Munch, his thick, white hair flying in the musical breeze, led his crew through Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony, Walter Piston's Sixth, and, in a specialty that every Munchian audience outside Russia has heard and heard again, Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2. At the end, the crowd let loose an eight-minute tumult, only stopped temporarily when the orchestra went into a rare encore-Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice. Said a leading Russian fiddler: "It's the greatest orchestra in the world...