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Keefe beat Mark Silverstein at one to push his individual record to 8-1. Tommy Wynne (four) and Joe Tibbetts (seven) added two more wins to the Harvard column on 3-1 and 3-2 victories respectively...
With luck, The Happening might have happened to be a passable picture. But Director Elliot Silverstein, forgetting everything he learned on Cat Ballou, makes his players move with galvanic gestures and broad grimaces that would be too gross for a marionette show. Moreover, the script's idea of wit consists of having George Maharis, as one of the bums, end most of his sentences in the same way: "Bam! Et cetera." "We're all in this together. Et cetera...
...Boston's Joseph Silverstein, 33, raised in Detroit, is one of the top three or four concertmasters in the world. That is some achievement in view of the fact that he was expelled from Philadelphia's Curtis Institute at 17 ("I was too distracted by girls and baseball"). Silverstein is one of the few concertmasters to work his way up from the ranks; he joined the Boston string section in 1955, ascended to the first chair in 1962. Says Boston Symphony Conductor Erich Leinsdorf: "He has some sort of beam or antenna, so that he knows what...
...cellist was "exceptional," declared Boston Symphony Concertmaster Joseph Silverstein. The pianist played "as well as anybody need ever play," said Conductor Erich Leinsdorf. The soloists who won these praises from such rigorous judges were not big concert stars but virtually unknown American students: New York City's Stephen Kates, 23, and Los Angeles' Misha Dichter, 20, both fresh from winning silver medals at the Third International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow...
Leinsdorf noted later that Dichter approached the concerto not as if it were an old war horse but as a new piece: "He goes back to the printed instructions of the composer. He does not add a number of silly things which have become traditional." Said Concertmaster Silverstein: "Seldom has the orchestra been so impressed with a single performer...