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When asked for biographical details, Irving Fine replies, "I've been at Harvard for a long time." But there is more to his story than that. Teacher, composer, conductor, performer, and critic, Fine is a complete musician...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). All-Beethoven program. Conductor: Bruno Walter...
Horns & Hats. None of the 40 musicians of the Cannes Municipal Orchestra had ever played a single note of modern American symphonic music; even though Conductor Horenstein found his players "quick-witted and adaptable," he still had to rehearse them three times a day, between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. He had waited until the day before the concert for his score of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue to arrive, finally had to phone the U.S. embassy in Paris to borrow another and have it flown down. There were no mutes for the trumpets; he had to borrow felt...
...imitate the Europeans . . . It's better to write good Gershwin than bad Ravel." And after hearing some piano preludes, songs from Porgy and Bess and An American in Paris, topped off by a rousing Rhapsody in Blue, Cannes connoisseurs found good Gershwin good enough for them. They let Conductor Horenstein & Co. know it with six noisy curtain calls. Concluded old Cannes Critic Edouard Berthier: "When you write that kind of music, you don't have to imitate anybody...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Guest conductor: Milton Katims...