Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first U.S. orchestra to visit Russia in six years, the Clevelanders were feted and fawned upon. In Moscow, at the opening of the five-week tour, the audience summoned Conductor George Szell back for 20 curtain calls and four encores, rhythmically clapping and chanting "Glory! . . . bravo! . . thanks!" They relented only when Szell ordered his 107 musicians off the stage...
...hundreds of fans attempted to batter their way into the concert hall, and heavy police reinforcements had to be rushed in to quell the riot. Pianist John Browning, 31, whose brilliant interpretation of Barber's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra was one of the critical highlights of the tour, attracted an avid following of young girls, who stormed the stage crying "John, John . . . oh, John!" When Violinist Gino Raffaelli was spotted on the street, the volatile Armenians demanded an impromptu sidewalk recital. He complied...
...evening of Brahms and Mozart, several of the musicians adjourned to the youth cafés to sit in on jam sessions with the local hipsters. In Tbilisi, the orchestra was treated to a sumptuous banquet and serenaded by Georgian folk singers. The only sour note of the tour was sounded privately by the musicians, who rightfully questioned Szell's generally lightweight selection of American works, including two insipidities by Composers William Grant Still and Herbert Elwell, a native of Cleveland...
Last week, winding up the tour with three concerts in Leningrad, the Cleveland Orchestra had scored one of the biggest successes in the history of the cultural-exchange program. There were still five weeks of concertizing in Western Europe yet to come. But as Conductor Szell exclaimed: "What more could...
...Bolshoi. In earlier trips the youngsters had visited Lisbon and Tangier, explored an Olivetti factory near Naples, toured the Brolio winery in Florence, quizzed their way through East and West Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Munich. During spring vacation, some of the Americans talked with students at Moscow University, attended the Bolshoi Theater. Back at Lugano, a lively faculty (average age: 28) related the tour experiences to such required courses as contemporary Europe, European literature, logic and composition, French and Italian languages...