Word: soloists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...climax of his winter conducting season, Arturo Toscanini picked Beethoven's soaring Missa Solemnis. Following his baton in Carnegie Hall last week were Basso Jerome Hines, Tenor Eugene Conley, and Mezzo-Soprano Nan Merriman as soloists, the members of the NBC Symphony and the Robert Shaw Chorale. Amidst this phalanx of well-known U.S. artists was one soloist few Americans had ever so much as heard of: a 28-year-old Toronto soprano named Lois Marshall. From now on, listeners are going to hear a lot more...
...Pittsburgh Symphony led the parade. Under the baton of William Steinberg, and with Violinist Isaac Stern as soloist, the up & coming Pittsburgh gave a high-spirited performance featuring Gustav Mahler's First Symphony and Modernist Bela Bartok's Violin Concerto. Listeners and critics were especially impressed by the orchestra's brilliance and enthusiasm...
Next night, the brilliant 110-piece Philadelphia Orchestra was on the stage. Eugene Ormandy led Sibelius' Seventh Symphony, and Violinist Nathan Milstein was the soloist in Beethoven's Violin Concerto. Their Manhattan concert was routine for the Philadelphians, who will play Carnegie Hall ten times this season...
...unique feature of the audition was the premiere of two movements from a piano concerto composed by Joel Mandelbaum for the soloist, Ann Besser. The concerto is written in the same key (A) as two others performed on the program, the Liszt and the Schuman. And though Mr. Mandelbaum does not wholly shun the contemporary idiom, in spirit his work is much like those two showpieces of the Romantic era. Miss Besser's performance, by its technical perfection as well as its penetration of the music showed the work off to excellent advantage...
...Before the next summons came, Paul was already lodged with a friendly farmworkers' corps near Vienna; he did most of his digging in the scores of Mozart and Beethoven. He gave his first recital in Vienna four years ago, then gradually began to make his name as a soloist and chamber musician. Badura-Skoda realizes that his U.S. record reputation has given him a unique advantage over most other musicians his age, but he still prefers to play for live audiences. "Recording studios are so cold," he says, "and it is always a pleasure to be liked." Town Hall...