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...week in Boston, he demonstrated with his new Piano Concerto No. 2 why it is that conductors, soloists and the public have only the kindest of words for him. He is not afraid of melo dy or tonality, and he has the courage to write in the familiar mainstream tra dition of Bartok and Prokofiev-the titters of twelve-tone, modified twelve-tone, post-Webern and electronic cliques notwithstanding. That is not to say he is old hat. Within the bounds of con ventional forms like the symphony, sonata, string quartet and concerto, Lees manages to be fascinatingly original...
...FESTIVAL "Boston Pops III." Arthur Fiedler conducts the Boston Pops Orches tra in a special concert at Tanglewood in Massachusetts, with Saxophonist Stan Getz as guest soloist...
...scenes be tween Orlando and Rosalind there is an incandescent purity," he says. "Men are somehow better at this than wom en. Actresses, even the best ones, are likely to gush a little." Williams is mus ing over other possibilities: "It might be interesting to do Antony and Cleopa tra with a man as Cleopatra. There isn't a female around who can really play that role...
...death of the WJT, the Post's circulation has climbed from 400,000 to 700,-000. It has added a few columnists, such as William F. Buckley Jr., Ann Landers and Evans & Novak, plus the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post news service. It has also added an ex tra page or two of news, though its coverage still seems sparse and its typography is fuzzy. The Post recently bought the defunct Journal-American's presses, a move that will enable it to go from 96 pages to 112 and accommodate all the advertising it has fallen heir...
Carl Sandburg did not need the ex tra five years. When he died last week at 89 - the same age as the early 19th century Japanese painter - on his goat farm near Flat Rock, N.C., he was solidly established as a poet and historian...