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Just before Soviet Violinist David Oistrakh left for his first visit to the U.S., he played the world premiere of a new concerto dedicated to him by top Soviet Composer Dimitry Shostakovich. That was in Leningrad, last October. In Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week the violinist gave the composition its U.S. premiere with the Philharmonic-Symphony, conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos. It turned out to be one of Shostakovich's most powerful works and the finest violin concerto to reach New York since World...
Mitropoulos, who usually conducts from memory, opened the score, apparently in deference to Oistrakh's nerves. The violin entered almost at once, spinning out a long, yearning melody in a rhythm that was at once syncopated and plodding. Violinist Oistrakh applied his tight, concise tone to it. He revealed it, at its best, as a line of high eloquence, although sometimes it was merely a dry-throated recitation. Later, the movement rose to a shuddering gong-burst of sound, and both orchestra and soloist glided into a barely comprehensible maneuver that slid to a high, fine-drawn conclusion...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). All-Tchaikovsky program, with Violinist Erica Morini...
...Kresge Auditorium. On concert nights, Bolt and his associates may be seen busily picking up unpremeditated opinion from critics and public about the hall's acoustics. Orchestra men generally like it, because they can hear each other as the sound bounces off the "clouds" (in most halls, a violinist hears little beyond the string section, a trumpeter hardly anything except the brasses). So far, the novelty of being able to hear so clearly has convinced audiences, too, that Kresge is an acoustic marvel. But if, as seems likely, it becomes the acoustic model for other halls, the music...
Such diverse musical attractions as the Scots Guards Regimental Band, Violinist David Oistrakh and the Obernkirchen Children's Choir have one thing in common during their U.S. tours: in the program booklets or in ads appears a small, well-fed cherub who seems to be doodling with a long quill. This is the trademark of Angel Records, only two years old and one of the brightest, most enterprising record companies in the U.S. today...