Word: philharmonia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BOSTON will enjoy the gifts of three conductors of the first magnitude this year: Seiji Ozawa, Claudio Abaddo, and Leon Kirchner; and Kirchner is providentially accessible to Harvard audiences as the conductor of the Boston Philharmonia. This excellent chamber orchestra serves the salutary purposes of offering varied programs, significant modern works, and vital playing, three qualities egregiously absent from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which gives every indication of expiring into another seven months of unremittingly harsh and indifferent prosecutions of emulsified, vindictively pasteurized programs gleaming with lambent somnolence. Kirchner does not specialize in conducting twentieth century music, although...
...uninspired journeymen, but a pregnant and energizing compositional discipline in the hands of a master such as Schoenberg, Berg, or Stravinsky. Mrs. Vosgerchian played the piece idiomatically, sensitive to the tonal resource of each note, the logical impetus of every rhythm, the grace of Stravinsky's complete conception. The Philharmonia contributed its finest playing in this performance. The slight touch of coarseness in the upper violins which occasionally intruded last year has been eliminated. My only complaint is that the solo oboe persists in playing half a dynamic too loud. On the basis of this program the Philharmonia's forthcoming...
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL (Aug. 24-Sept. 13) this year has an Italian slant, featuring works by composers from Monteverdi and Corelli to Dallapiccola and Nono. Opera predominates, but the London Symphony Orchestra, the New Philharmonia, and such soloists as Pianists Claudio Arrau and Misha Dichter, Violinists Itzhak Perlman and Nathan Milstein, can also be heard in nonoperatic works from Brahms to Stravinsky...
...Monday Night Concert Series--Boston Philharmonia with Leon Kirchner, conductor at Sanders Theatre. Tickets at Loeb Drama Center and at the door. Admission charge...
...with amateur orchestras around London. When he approached Sir Adrian Boult, the doyen of British conductors, Boult offered to become his patient if he would stick to medicine. Instead, Bialoguski took a master class in conducting with Franco Ferrara in Siena, Italy. Eventually, Boult let Bialoguski rehearse the New Philharmonia in Beethoven's Prometheus overture. He did so well that the orchestra agreed to last week's concert...