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...Orchestra under George Szell and the Boston Symphony, which not only played superbly under its new conductor, Erich Leinsdorf (see below), but included in its program what proved to be the week's most distinguished première-Samuel Barber's Piano Concerto, with John Browning as soloist, Composers Copland, Walter Piston and William Bergsma had also provided opening-week pieces, all of them competent occasional music (Copland's brassy, sinewy Connotations for Orchestra, Piston's stately Lincoln Center Festival Overture, Bergsma's festive In Celebration: Toccata for the Sixth Day). But of the four...
...selections from the work of Ralph Vaughan Williams opened the program. With Miss Jacqueline Goodspeed as soprano soloist, the Chorus performed Williams' "O Taste and See," a setting of Verse 8 of the 34th Psalm. The general effect was pleasing; and even better things were soon to come. Regardless of whatever else it can do, a group as large as the Chorus ought to be able to sing with power. And the Summer Chorus, with its stops let out, was overwhelming. The second of the opening compositions, "O Clap Your Hands," proved this beyond a shadow of doubt. Scored...
...Bartok, however, was another matter. Miss Katja Andy, a very good piano player, was the soloist, and one of her best qualities, thankfully, is an ability to complete her appointed rounds, like the postman, without reference to threatening atmospheric conditions. Consequently, one was often able to hear Miss Andy's precise, professional, and sensibly articulated playing even in the teeth of an orchestral noise of near gale force. This piano concerto was also listed as a premiere performance in the area, but that is a mistake: its premiere has yet to be heard...
Included on tomorrow's program will be two local premieres: the Symphony in D by Mehul, a celebrated contemporary and favorite of Beethoven; and the superb Third Piano Concerto by Bartok, the last work finished by the composer before he died in New York. Soloist in the concerto will be Katja Andy...
...read with interest your perceptive article on Mr. Goodman's Leningrad performance of the Rhapsody in Bine, in which I was soloist [TIME, June 29]. I would like to say that unfortunately I had no time to "brood" at the auditorium as I was Milan-bound for my next engagement well before the second half of the program got under...