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Judges in the HRO Concerto Contest are unable to find a soloist good enough to play with the HRO. Radcliffe raises its room fee and requires girls living off-campus to pay the full amount for board. A WHRB disc jockey predicts the result of the Playboy Jazz Poll so accurately ("I had to prostitute my own taste") that he wins a weekend with a Playmate...
...most impressive thing about the soloists was how well they blended on the soli passages. The only poor performance came in some low register passages that were clearly beyond the ability of the Bassist, especially in some sustained notes of questionable constancy in the Gloria; but he sounded fine in the higher registers. The star of the evening was soprano Marsha Vleck who, though lacking the heroic power of the Choral Society's previous sopratio soloist, sang beautifully, accurately, and gracefully...
Best performance by a soloist with orchestra-Artur Rubinstein playing Beethoven's Concerto No. 4 with the Boston Symphony, Erich Leinsdorf conducting (RCA Victor...
Best performance by a vocal soloist-Leontyne Price singing excerpts from Strauss's operas Salome and The Egyptian Helen, with the Boston Symphony under Erich Leinsdorf (RCA Victor...
...nonplused at the omission of Duquesne University's Bernard Goldberg, flutist of the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Musica Viva Trio, soloist with the Casals and Marlboro festivals...