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...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Guest conductor: Massimo Freccia...
When something goes wrong with rehearsals of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Antal Dorati doesn't take it out on the musicians. Instead, he is apt to tell them: "We'll take a five-minute break while I go give myself hell." He goes into his dressing room, kicks things around for a while, then comes back glowing. The treatment seems to be as efficacious for his musicians...
Last week, Conductor Dorati had more cause than usual to kick the furniture. He had been brought to Manhattan to be music director of a new "World's Fair of Music." A 70-piece orchestra, plus such big name help as Benny Goodman and Ella Fitzgerald, Ballet Dancers Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin, had been signed up to lure lookers and listeners into Grand Central Palace...
Dorati is as proud of Dallas ("a conductor's paradise") as the city is of him. Says he: "By now, I cannot cheat them musically even if I wanted...
...mural, on a concave wall in the school's open-air theater, covered a thousand square feet. Standing on the stage in front of it and flailing his arms like an orchestra conductor, Orozco "painted" by means of shouted instructions to half a dozen agile young artists in bosun's chairs. At last, one morning, he spread his arms wide; the mural was finished and the perspiring painters were free to come down and look at what Orozco had done...