Word: soloists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Soloist: Pianist Robert Casadesus...
Wrote one Louisville critic: "It opens an entirely new field for the contemporary dancer . . . and places him on a commercial and artistic footing with the piano, instrumental and vocal soloist." To sallow, dark-eyed Dancer Graham, it was "a great challenge . . . This must be a special work with a full symphony. It can't be reduced to anything I can take on tour. But other symphony orchestras may be interested...
...music is not beyond oldsters, they sent Virgil Thomson's dissonant Seine at Night flowing down the corridors -and the brasses got their chance to show they still had both wind and beauty of tone. In Chausson's Poème, with Violinist Ruggiero Ricci as guest soloist, the strings got to prove that they improve with age, like a fine old Stradivarius. By the time they had wound up the concert with a powerful performance of Richard Strauss's Death and Transfiguration, with everybody bowing and blowing their best together, they had won themselves a hearty...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Soloist: Rudolf Serkin...
Voice of Firestone (Mon. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Soloist: Eleanor Steber...