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...business. The opening concert (Beethoven and Brahms) was conducted by Holland's standout Eduard van Beinum; the next night a U.S. conductor, Emerson Buckley, led a setless but fresh-sounding La Boheme. Planned later this season: Shakespeare's Tempest, with the rarely heard incidental music by Jean Sibelius. Wrote the New York Times's Howard Taubman: "The Berkshires have a major festival [at Tangle-wood]. Now the Catskills. Every mountain range may stand benevolently over one in due time...
World Music Festivals (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). All-Sibelius program. Conductor: Tauno Hannikainen...
...Boston Symphony (Sat. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society. Conductor: Charles Munch. Philadelphia Orchestra (Sun. 12:30 p.m., CBS). Selections from Wagner and Sibelius. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy...
...Canberra, Australia, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra played to a packed house. The concert program listed Sibelius' Symphony No. 2, to be followed by Tchaikovsky. But, because of a last-minute switch in conductors, there was an unannounced change in the schedule: Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony became the major work, followed by Berlioz' Hungarian March. Sibelius-whose disciplined power is poles apart from the romantic extravagance of Tchaikovsky-was off the program entirely...
Next morning, readers of the Canberra Times were startled to see Critic Peter Bailey's review of Sibelius' Symphony No. 2 ("The themes are catching and developed with simplicity and beauty . . . from the serious minor cadences of the opening Allegro we move to the lovely waltz-time theme of the Andante . . ."). Bailey carpingly dismissed the Berlioz work ("It seemed an anticlimax to have to listen to an encore by Tchaikovsky...