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...televised concert in Sanders Theatre and an appearance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood will highlight the activities of the 300-member Harvard Summer School Chorus this season...
...Tanglewood the Chorus will sing the Mozart Requiem in honor of Pope John XXIII with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Eric Leinsdorf on July...
...pianistic conductor: instead, he even trusted the beaters and blowers in the orchestra to come in without cues while he painted tones in the violin section. Abbado studied at the Mozarteum and the Vienna Academy of Music, and in 1958 he won the Koussevitzky Prize for conductors at Tanglewood...
Leinsdorf uses no baton and conducts with a stiff and angular style. His dress coat reaches nearly to his ankles, and from the audience he looks like an aging seaman sending semaphore signals to some distant ship. The Boston has the longest season of all (50 weeks), including Tanglewood in the summer and-for the 92 members willing to play Viennese waltzes and champagne music-a stint with Arthur Fiedler's Boston Pops...
...feels "at home in the great classical tradition," he has so far announced no drastic new programming plans, has even declined to announce all the programs for this season ("I would like to retain the woman's privilege of changing my mind"). He would like the Boston at Tanglewood to commission and play more works for small groups-for the very practical reason that "more and more far-out composers are writing for small groups now and not for the orchestra...