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...otherwise intelligent music lover who does not like modern music and for the concert-goer who is looking for something different the Longy School's "Music of Today" series supplies an ideal remedy. Last Thursday, Gregory Tucker successfully presented the first of three concert-lectures devoted to contemporary music. The featured work was Arnold Schonberg's enigmatic Violin Concerto (Op. 36), the artists were Mr. and Mrs. Louis Krasner, and the result was one of the season's most important musical events...
...warm house," that its audiences "know the fine points of arias and give their applause with perception." Moreover, "the most beautiful voices in the world are here [in the U.S.] ... I have never heard a better Rigoletto than Leonard Warren, or a better Duke than Richard Tucker." And as for Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, a pride of the Vienna company, she now has the sad duty of breaking the word that the Met's new production (TIME, Jan. 7) is even better...
Thereafter, Mozart and a first-rate cast took over. There were no stars: Così is strictly an ensemble opera. But all hands -Eleanor Steber, Blanche Thebom, Patrice Munsel, Frank Guarrera, Richard Tucker, John Brownlee-somehow seemed to sing and look better than ever. They sang in understandable English, and carried themselves with the flawlessly sophisticated artificiality which Così, and Director Lunt, demanded...
...Except for Cummings, who obviously can't take these goings-on seriously, and Character Actor Will Geer, playing a sly local crook, the cast is as earnest as any posse that ever hit the trail. Watching them gallop horselessly through jungle thickets to make Miami safe for Sophie Tucker is one way of waiting for the top half of the double bill...
...speakers are: Aaron Copland, Eliot Norton Professor of Music, a composer, Malcolm H. Holmas '29, Dean of of the New England Conservatory of Music, a conductor, and Gregory Tucker, Faculty member of the Harvard Music Department, a planist...