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...last that vice is its own reward. The preposterous little fable is funniest when played in deadly earnest. Playhouse 90 pitched it in a mood of self-conscious farce with blackouts to end each act, played it with an ill-starred cast. Comedian Ernie Kovacs as Topaze and Carl Reiner as the swindler heightened the effect of a rambling revue skit, did not so much dominate as swamp their roles with their familiar TV personalities. Still, in a medium that mines so much of its comedy from mothers and fathers who know best, even this production of Topaze...
After Harvard, Lennie vainly tried to find a musical job, even hung out his shingle as a piano teacher ("No pupils," he recalls). But Fritz Reiner, then at Philadelphia's famed Curtis Institute of Music, was impressed by a dazzling Bernstein audition, took him on as a student in conducting. But it was in the late Serge Koussevitzky. the Boston Symphony Orchestra's matchless showman, that Bernstein found his musical father. Koussevitzky invited him to join the conducting class at Tanglewood's summer music school. The old man called him Lenyush ka, and told friends...
Strauss: Scenes from "Salome" and "Elektra" (Inge Borkh, soprano; Chicago Symphony conducted by Fritz Reiner; Victor, 2 LPs). A rising German-born soprano in two of her finest roles. The excerpts include her biggest scenes, including the only warm moments in Elektra -when the demented woman recognizes her brother. The orchestral climax is terrible in its intensity; Borkh is splendid...
Mozart: A Musical Joke (Members of the NBC Symphony conducted by Fritz Reiner; Victor). A rustic but often appealing suite composed in Mozart's most sophisticated period, designed to illustrate some of the musical pitfalls he so consistently avoided. Many of them are too subtle for untrained ears, but when two French horns sail into a strange key and bump unceremoniously, it is quite clear their music has been incorrectly transposed. Just what pitfalls Mozart had in mind for the brief but cacophonous end is not clear-perhaps all of them blended into...
Chicago music lovers got a treat last week: the first U.S. performance of Symphony No. 7 by Darius Milhaud (pronounced me-lo). Performed with clarity and spirit by Conductor Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony, it turned out to be one of Milhaud's most appealing works...