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Arriving in Manhattan, Britain's crusty old (70) Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham had undergone no sea change. He planned a concert and lecture tour in the U.S. and Canada, including four stops in Texas, where, he intoned, "Western culture has arrived at its highest peak." Having disposed of these kind words, he turned on modern classical music: "A continuous succession of promissory notes. Composers are always promising but only keep on promising." What about bebop? Snapped Sir Thomas: " What the devil is that...
...year and a half ago public-spirited Physician Capito put a proposition to Conductor-Composer Antonio Modarelli of the 85-piece Charleston Symphony Orchestra: Capito would pay $1,000 for the kind of composition he had in mind. Modarelli agreed. Last week, along with West Virginia Governor Okey Patteson and the biggest Charleston symphony audience in history (2,500), Capito heard the result: a six-section program piece entitled River Saga...
...audience, which was made up largely of faculty members and their wives, heard Charles Munch conducting the orchestra for the first time in this area. When the concert was over the listeners rose to give the conductor a standing ovation, something almost unheard of for Harvard...
Hearing the concert Tuesday night was like listening to a new orchestra. With a few exceptions, the members of the Boston Symphony are French, and now they have a French conductor. The "rapport" thus created resulted in a sound totally different from that made by the same musicians under Serge Koussevitzky...
...outstanding work of the evening as far as performance was concerned if not musical excellence was probably Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe Suite. Here both the orchestra and the conductor were in their element. A completely impressionistic work such as this requires deep understanding, and the orchestra, which has been seated differently to create a different tonal effect, certainly gave it that...