Word: wallenstein
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...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...
...judges: Abram Chasins, Gitta Gradova, George Szell, Rudolf Serkin, Rudolf Firkusny, Leopold Marines, Xadia Reisenberg, Alfred Wallenstein, Leon Fleisher and two previous Leventritt winners, Eugene Istomin and Gary Graffman...
...long and laureled career, Voice has also had devoted helpers. Only four conductors have occupied the Firestone podium: Hugo Meriani, William Daly, Alfred Wallenstein and, for the past 14 years, debonair Howard Barlow, onetime conductor of the Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, who is proud that he has "never been mobbed by bobby-soxers or threatened by rioting teen-agers." Suave Hugh James, 42, has been the show's an nouncer for 19 years. And for the past 20 years, Firestone's National Advertising Manager A. J. McGinness has commuted almost every week between Akron and Manhattan studios...
...says with grand self-depreciation, "but no one will imitate me because I won't make a penny on it." Out of his share of the receipts Rubinstein was paying for the accompanying symphony orchestra (mostly members of the New York Philharmonic Symphony) under Conductor Alfred Wallenstein. Despite the backbreaking concert schedule, tireless Artur Rubinstein took on two recording sessions, one of them at midnight (he has sold more than 3,000,000 albums for RCA Victor...