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...Philadelphia's Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany last week, music lovers heard something that was avowedly "different": the beginning of a three-day festival of music by Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672). It was staged by Conductor William H. Reese of the Haverford College Glee Club, partly because he wanted to avoid the "usual mishmash and hodgepodge" of choral programs, partly because from the time he was in college himself, he has been a stout Schütz admirer...
Composer Schütz was one of music's 17th century giants*; known as "the father of German music," he composed the first German opera (Dafne), and was the man who managed to fuse solid German choral counterpoint with Italy's exciting new "concerted" style that combined voices and instruments. Schütz's music has long been shadowed by Bach, but once modern ears are accustomed to it, its impact is dramatic as well as spiritual...
Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte (Aksel Schiötz, tenor; Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano; Columbia). Danish Tenor Schiötz sings with incredible ease and warmth, gives Beethoven's famed song cycle its full, expressive measure...
...than half full. But at the end of the performance, most of the audience stood up to cheer. Two nights later, 6,000 Londoners watched and listened while Gianella guided the orchestra with professional aplomb. Gianella started badly, muffing the opening bars of the overture to Der Freischütz, but soon found herself. Then came Haydn's Symphony No. 73-with Gianella and the L.P.O. outdoing themselves-and the Tannhäuser overture. By this time, the Albert Hall audience was applauding wildly-though whether from seeing a conductor who unabashedly scratched her bottom during the Haydn...
Sunday Evening Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., ABC). The Detroit Symphony, with Pianist Henrietta Schumann: Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1; Ganne's Marche Lorraine', Massenet's Scènes Alsaciennes: Weber's Overture to Der Freischütz. Conductor: Valter Poole...