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It certainly wasn't De Sabata's first program that lured the critics. There was only one new work, a viciously dissonant and twisting symphonic poem, Marinaresca e Baccanale, by a little known Italian contemporary named Giorgio Federico Ghedini. The others-Berlioz' blood & thunder Roman Carnival Overture...
Composer in the Wings. The first music Victor de Sabata ever conducted was a composition of his own, at the Milan Conservatory-at the age of twelve. Six years later, La Scala produced his first opera, Il Macigno. When Toscanini brought the La Scala orchestra to the U.S. on tour...
New York Philharmonic-Symphony (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts Lalo's Symphonic Espagnole. Violin soloist: Isaac Stern.
When success first came, Lehar was 35 -broad, bluff and charming. But he had had to fight for his laurels. The first rehearsals of The Merry Widow in Vienna seemed so bad that he had to plead with the director, "Let us at least open." Its Vienna success was instantaneous...
Beneath a gleaming chrome and glass marquee, celebrities swarmed one night this week to the opening of Manhattan's new $300,000 French movie theater, the Paris. They had paid $12.50 a head to look at one another and a movie (La Symphonic Pastorale), test the comfort of the...