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...Orchestras, and director of the Wellesley Concert series. He has taught classes in music appreciation, acted as graduate advisor of Pierian, and has been an instructor (now dean) of the New England Conservatory of Music. He has been active in the Berkshire Festival and plays the violin in the Tanglewood String Quartet with three members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...people that this cast will be supporting on the November 16 opening are Polyna Stoska, the first Metropolitan Opera singer to step before undergraduate footlights at Harvard, and Tanglewood tenor Raymond Smolover...
Metropolitan Opera soprano Polyna Stoska will sing the leading role. Miss Stoska was the star of Kurt Well's Broadway musical, "Street Scene." Tener Raymond Smolover of the Tanglewood Opera Company will take the male lead. The society's William P. Perry '51 will direct the orchestra and chorus...
...distinguished victim after another. There was Friedrich Gulda, a talented 20-year-old Austrian pianist who had come to give a concert in Carnegie Hall (Gulda had been required to join a Nazi youth group at the age of ten). Famed Conductor Victor de Sabata, who conducted at Tanglewood earlier this year and was coming again as guest conductor for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, had conducted Milan's La Scala orchestra during the Mussolini regime. A German war bride of Philadelphia, returning from a visit to her mother in Germany, was detained because she had belonged to a Hitler...
...program for the first concert was all Beethoven. The orchestra held up extremely well considering that, at the moment, it has summer and winter conductors, each at opposite musical extremes. After a summer at Tanglewood under Koussevitsky's leadership, it takes a while to get used to the more subtle style of Munch. Nevertheless, Beethoven's first symphony, a comparatively fragile, early work, was handled with all the delicacy that can be expected of a full symphony orchestra. Ordinarily, the work should be performed by about 40 musicians, and it is a tribute to Munch that he could make...