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...Ravel: Daphnis & Chloe Suites Nos. I & 2 (Orchestra de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Charles Münch conducting; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 6 sides). Suite No. 1 has little to say that the better-known No. 2 does not say better. Recording: good...
...Jeremiah Symphony. The score of it had gone astray somewhere between Athens, Cairo and Jerusalem. Another copy arrived by air only three days before the concert. But Bernstein got the yoman orchestra through it deftly. That called for five bows. Then he played the solo part of Ravel's Piano Concerto, conducting from the piano. Some of the more critical in the audience thought they had heard better performances, but if Bernstein had played Pop! Goes the Weasel, the audience would have loved him just as much...
...Stravinsky, who is nearing thirty. Although he is a regular professor at the Conservatory of Geneva, Lipatti has been spreading his rapidly growing reputation by exhaustive tours of Europe. Already an excellent technician, his interpretation of Romantic and Modern music have often been hostilely received by critics. His Ravel, and even more strikingly, his Chopin have a neat, precise touch that makes them sound almost Classical to ears accustomed to the rather hyper-poetical treatment of many better known pianists, such as his former teacher. On the other hand, his beautiful feeling for the earlier composers. Bach, Scarlatti, and Mozart...
Monday--Music Club Concert at Adams House, 7 o'clock. Works of Bach, Ravel, Block, and Brahms. Hubert Doris, piano; Fred Miller, cello...
...public school, drove a taxi, saw the country, became an auto body finisher in Detroit - until his employers found where all the nicks were coming from - and topped off the U.S. phase of his career one night by leading Detroit's Fox Theater orchestra through a performance of Ravel's Bolero before a full house. He was the theater parking lot attendant, and the men in the orchestra pit had noticed him leading them from the stage door night after night. On this occasion they marched him to the podium and played his favorite composition under his baton...