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...bassists like second basemen. They have been known to stop musicians on the street to plead for autographs and crowd the stage door after concerts to shake the hands of fiddlers. And in store windows all over town, they mount pictures of their hero, the glowering, inescapable Maestro George Szell...
Beethoven: Pastoral Symphony (the Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell conducting). A magically good performance, combining grace with precision, heart with head...
Musically, perhaps the most distinguished evenings of the week were provided by the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell and the Boston Symphony, which not only played superbly under its new conductor, Erich Leinsdorf (see below), but included in its program what proved to be the week's most distinguished première-Samuel Barber's Piano Concerto, with John Browning as soloist, Composers Copland, Walter Piston and William Bergsma had also provided opening-week pieces, all of them competent occasional music (Copland's brassy, sinewy Connotations for Orchestra, Piston's stately Lincoln Center Festival Overture, Bergsma...
Then Block took charge at the piano, and with Mozart's "Coronation" Concerto prompted Serkin and Bernstein, Mannes and Graffman and Szell and Firkusny to exchange pleased glances. "Let's hear Beethoven's Opus 27 in E-flat," asked Leopold Mannes from the balcony. Block then eased his way into the Beethoven sonata fantasy with a keen intelligence that paid heed not only to detail but also to essential unity. Displaying versatility as well as virtuosity, Block played a cadenza from a Tchaikovsky concerto and a Liszt sonata. Chattering excitedly, the judges reached a verdict...
...Rudolf Serkin, Leonard Bernstein, George Szell, Rudolf Firkusny, Leopold Mannes, Nadia Reisenberg, Gary Graffman, Claude Frank, Gitta Gradova and Theodore Bloomfield...