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...ARISTOCRAT by Conrad Richter. 180 pages. Knopf...
...that he is mellow, fulfilled and nearing 80, Conrad Richter is devoting his fiction more and more to recollections of the kind hearts and sometimes genteel people who lived in the town where he grew up, Pine Grove, Pa. (pop. 2,267). He has written three books about the mores of "Unionville, Pa.," Pine Grove's fictional counterpart, and they are, for the most part, splendidly solid. His latest, alas, is not. The Aristocrat is slender and seemingly self-indulgent. It would be slick as well, were it not for Richter's imperturbable sincerity. He presents a caricature...
...Your report of the Munich Bach Festival [July 5] mentions two ways of playing Bach: 1) the rigid, as-written style; 2) the free, "swinging" style used by Karl Richter, Landowska and others...
Beards & Blondes. Never, in the 18 years since he fled East Germany as a penniless refugee, has Richter's prestige been higher. Many a city-notably Vienna-has tried to lure him from Munich, but he is not budging. Why should he, when bearded students, blonde duchesses, convent novices, bank presidents and scientists are fighting for tickets to his concerts? He lives a lonely personal life-smoking nervously on long, solitary walks along the banks of the Isar River, draining bottle after bottle of beer while studying at night. But his relationship with his public is a happy affair...
TOURAINE FESTIVAL (June 28-July 5), Meslay, central France, held in a barn built by monks in 1220, has scheduled performances by Pianists Sviatoslav Richter and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Violinist Henryk Szeryng, Soprano Evelyn Lear and her husband, Baritone Thomas Stewart...