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...AFTERNOON AT TANGLEWOOD (NBC, 2:30-5 p.m.). An NBC News Special live, from the Berkshire Festival at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass. The program includes Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra and solo performances by Pianist Misha Dichter and Violinist Masuko Yushioda, both winners of the Third International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow...
...course for the uninitiated, moved on to headier stuff by Vaughan Williams, Frederick Delius and William Walton. The orchestra more than lived up to its reputation as one of the world's finest ensembles. Bolstered by such first-rank performers as Composer-Conductor Aaron Copland, Cellist Janos Starker, Violinist Jaime Laredo and Pianist John Ogdon, the festival was off to an impressive start...
Magical Forest. The theater was aptly opened with a performance of Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Next week Dancer-Choreographer Edward Villella will perform the world premiere of his Narkissos. Next month Ormandy's Philadelphia Orchestra will accompany such artists as Soprano Leontyne Price, Violinist Isaac Stern and Pianist Van Cliburn. Talking about his musicians, the maestro is already picking up the language of the track. "My Phillies are chomping at the bit," says Ormandy. "But I will have to schedule rehearsals during racing hours because I saw what happened when the orchestra played...
...years it has been an unwritten rule, perfectly understandable although rather archaic, that the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra must not perform the works of German Composer Richard Wagner. Richard Strauss was verboten as well until 1953, when Violinist Jascha Heifetz played a Strauss sonata -a performance that later moved a zealot to clout him on the right wrist with an iron bar outside his hotel. Now the orchestra's directors have decided that "the time has come for a change . . . because of the paramount demands of freedom of art." So, presumably, Wagner and Strauss will now be heard in Israel...
That the orchestra has been so successful despite these drawbacks is due chiefly to Zvi Haftel, 54, concertmaster and chief wheedler-needier. Haftel was among the original 72 musicians, including 20 concertmasters and first-desk players, recruited in 1935 from the best European ensembles by Violinist Bronislaw Huberman, founder of the orchestra. Toscanini, as a snub to Hitler, conducted the debut performance of the refugee orchestra in 1936. But the orchestra foundered under Huberman until 1946, when Haftel, leading a musicians' mutiny, took over...