Word: soloists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lewisohn Stadium (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC-TV). Soloist: Nathan Milstein...
...festival began, King Frederik and his handsome Swedish-born Queen nodded approval from the Royal Box in the gilt-splashed and chandeliered Kongelige Teater as Soloist Ralov and his blonde wife Kirsten danced a rousing performance of Napoli. By the time the festival closed this week, a silken-smooth performance of Concerto (based on Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A Minor) had moved the Danes to break an old Royal Ballet tradition. To a thunder of bravos, the full company lined up to take one of its rare curtain calls...
...opening concert was a good sampling of what was to come in the festival's three weeks. Sitting in hushed and churchly silence, the audience heard two Brandenburg concertos and the D-Minor Piano Concerto, with French Pianist Yvonne Lefebure as an outstanding soloist. In the Brandenburg No. 2, a soprano saxophone played one of the solo parts; the trumpeter brought from Paris could not keep up with Casals' driving tempo...
Brandenburg Concert? (soloists and chamber group conducted by Fritz Reiner; Columbia, 6 sides LP). Dedicating the group "very humbly" to the Margrave of Brandenburg, in three of these Bach brought to perfection the concerto grosso form (in which a group of instruments instead of an individual soloist is pitted against an accompanying orchestra). Conductor Reiner balances his various instrumental voices like a master juggler, and gives the whole spacious warmth as well. Recording: good...
Andrew Heath, Jr., '50 of Eliot House has been awarded the Frank Huntington Bee be scholarship for one year's musical study in Europe. Among the trustees of the Beebe Fund is Walter Piston, Naumburg professor of music. Heath will be piano soloist with Arthur Fielder at the Pops on Sunday...