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...group he formed was the New York Pro Musica. In a performance last week of Elizabethan music in honor of Shakespeare's 400th birthday at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass., the six singers and four instrumentalists served eloquent notice that pre-Bach music was not to be forgotten. Drawing from the works of Shakespeare's contemporaries-Thomas Morley, William Byrd, Tobias Hume, John Wilbye, John Dowland-Pro Musica shook the dust off a score of Elizabethan madrigals and lute songs, embellishing the rarefied melodies with a rhythmic liveliness and delicate twining of voices and instruments to produce, in Shakespeare...
Festival Spirit. Tanglewood has been the Boston's summer home for 27 years, and its musical standards have always been as high as the orchestra's. But over the course of Charles Munch's 13-year reign as Boston's maestro, Tanglewood wilted sadly in the August heat...
Munch was little interested in teaching, weary from his long winter, remote from Tanglewood's earnest youthfulness. When Leinsdorf was appointed to succeed Munch last fall, Tanglewood's friends took heart: the 50-year-old Vienna-born conductor seemed just the man. "He has a festival spirit," said Bass Clarinetist Rosario Mazzeo, the B.S.O.'s personnel manager. "He has the most extraordinary set of qualities - his time is laid out by an IBM com puter, but he's available to everybody. He could manage General Motors...
...rose each day for an 8 a.m. breakfast, filled the mornings with rehearsals and conducting classes, the afternoons with conferences and more rehearsals, the evenings with performances. He played through a Mozart series, a Prokofiev cycle, and led his orchestra through a total of 32 works ne-W to Tanglewood, including the American premiere of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem...
Astonishing Lesson. For his 300 students, Leinsdorf mixed wit, energy and a towering musical intelligence to give them a vigorous summer of learning. He brought in soloists such as Pianists Lorin Hollander and Malcolm Frager to talk with his students, and even induced Eugene Ormandy to conduct the Tanglewood student orchestra. Taking a place in the orchestra himself, he was unsparing with the large batch of student conductors who turned up this year. Stopping the young conductors in mid-beat, he would say, "Why didn't the orchestra play for you there? Are you taking the orchestra...