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...Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Alfred Wallenstein, also tried some electronic tricks. Its featured soloist was a black box-an Ampex tape recorder. The work, called Poem of Cycles and Bells, was composed by Manhattan Tape-sichordists Vladimir Ussachevsky and Otto Luening (TIME, Nov. 10, 1952). Described as "music trapped from beyond the range of the human ear," the solo part consisted of ordinary flute, piano and vocal sounds, recorded and then sometimes distorted beyond recognition by various mechanical and electronic means. The composition got notice as far away as Baltimore, where the Sun protested: "Down with Space Music . . . Give...
...Hollywood Bowl "Symphonies under the Stars": Gregor Piatigorsky, Yehudi Menuhin, soloists; Jose Iturbi, Alfred Wallenstein, Victor de Sabata conducting...
...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Dvorak's Carnaval Overture, Paul Creston's Threnody, Jacques Ibert's Divertissement, finale of Haydn's Symphony No. 88. Conductor: Alfred Wallenstein...
...weeks' ago we had the pleasure of welcoming Monteux and the San Francisco Orchestra for a pair of concerts; at the same time Wallenstein and the Los Angeles Philharmonic went north for five concerts, three of which were played in San Francisco. . . . Most of us, including the critics, came away with the nice feeling that we would not exchange either conductors or orchestras...
...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Vivaldi-Mistowski's Concerto in G Minor for Strings, Mozart's Haffner Symphony, Richard Strauss's Suite from Der Rosenkavalier. Conductor: Alfred Wallenstein...