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...Performing Arts program: the New York City Center Light Opera Company's Carousel and Wonderful Town (wrote Ghent's Het Volk: "An absolute revelation!"), and the New York City Opera's Susannah by Carlisle Floyd. Crowds also jammed the Grand Auditorium to hear Violinist Isaac Stern play three times with the Philadelphia Orchestra, turned out again when the Philadelphians and Pianist Van Cliburn played the piece that catapulted him to fame-Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto...
...just been rehearsing with Casals," said Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. "He's in wonderful form, full of vigor and attack. He's taken off 15 pounds since his illness. Walks every morning-three kilometers-and rests in the afternoon." Recovered from a heart attack in Puerto Rico (TIME, April 29, 1957), Cellist Casals was back in the town of Prades (pop. 5,000) on the edge of the French Pyrenees, where he resumed his concert career eight years ago as an exile from Franco's Spain. From all over Western Europe musicians and disciples poured into town...
With an ear on the flap over all-conquering Pianist Van Cliburn, Russian-born Violinist Mischa Elman, 67, who has a gaggle of honors from his youth, warned graduates of Philadelphia's Combs College of Music: "Contests have their place in things like athletics, which are judged objectively, but in music it is not the single performance that makes a champion; it is the sustained consistency in performance quality that is the important, the telling factor-and that only time can determine." Cliburn, meanwhile, kept up his wowing ways in Great Britain, where, after a word tussle with London...
...fabled and, internationally, the least widely heard pianist is 44-year-old Russian Sviatoslav Richter. Most Westerners who have managed to attend one of his concerts are convinced that he is one of the greatest pianists now playing. But unlike such famed Russian contemporaries as Pianist Emil Gilels and Violinist David Oistrakh, Richter is not a Communist Party member and has never been allowed to travel to the West. Last week the West traveled to Richter. In Leningrad the touring Philadelphia Orchestra (TIME, June 9) joined him in a performance of Prokofiev's prickly, sardonic Fifth Piano Concerto...
Married. Josepha Heifetz, 27, concert pianist, daughter of Violinist Jascha Heifetz; and Robert Byrne, 27, editor of Western Construction, a San Francisco engineering trade magazine; in San Francisco...