Word: wallenstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brahms and Chopin recordings, but only in his mid-70s is he turning to Mozart, who did not live long enough to grow old. The best modern Mozart interpretation demands more crispness, but Rubinstein's performance has its own serene and sunny logic. He is accompanied by Alfred Wallenstein and the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra...
...OPERA (NBC, 1-4 p.m.). Bach's St. Matthew Passion, sung in English, is conducted by Alfred Wallenstein. Color...
...saving of the Hollywood Bowl through a vigorous fund-raising campaign in 1951 and the launching of the new music center. Her detractors accuse her of ignoring better-informed musical opinion than her own and of alienating, before Solti, such talented musicians as Eduard van Beinum and Alfred Wallenstein...
...Beethoven had at last a successor" in Berlioz, and the gift was an invitation to "write more divine compositions." Berlioz obliged with one of his most stunning works-the long "Dramatic Symphony," Romeo and Juliet. Last week the New York Philharmonic and the Juilliard Chorus under Guest Conductor Alfred Wallenstein gave the symphony one of its rare complete performances...
...strife, giving way to the stately chorus of trombones marking the prince's intervention; the remarkably effective muted chanting of the chorus in "Juliet's Funeral Procession," followed after "Juliet's Awakening" by a shattering explosion of the orchestra in flamboyantly strutting rhythms. Throughout, Conductor Wallenstein managed to catch the remarkable range of inflections that Berlioz alone seemed to hear in an orchestra...