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...Childhood of Christ," by Johann Christoph Bach, featured four superb soloists backed up by a fine orchestra-chorus combination. Conductor Alfred Patterson obviously had his musicians well trained; the attacks were accurate and confident, and balance between singers and orchestra came pretty close to perfection. The outstanding soloist was tenor Oscar Henry, whose strong but subdued voice sounded good, despite the sore throat he had to combat...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Soloist: Gregor Piatigorsky...
...joined an eight-piece dance band, began working out some of the arrangements he needed. Then he joined the Coast Guard and got a chance to play for a while in Lieut. Rudy Vallee's bluejacket orchestra. Since then, he has been what he wants to be: a soloist. Some nightclub managers shudder at the thought of a swing harpist, but Maxwell is making inroads and good money. Income last year...
Sunday afternoon Eleazar de Carvalho will be guest conductor in a program featuring Jorge Bolet as soloist in Prokofieff's Piano Concerto No. 2, and Guarnieri's Second Symphony and Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, with orchestration by Ravel...
Recital Hall (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC-TV), as the name implies, is not really a conventional TV show at all, but a half-hour recital filmed as a concert hall audience sees & hears it, without comment, commercials or trick camera work. Following Pianist Gyorgy Sandor, the first soloist: Baritone William Warfield, Cellist Leonard Rose...