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...night last week, under a bright quarter moon, Manhattan music fans gathered for the season's first outdoor concert at Lewisohn Stadium. A stocky, apple-cheeked woman, violin in hand, marched to the center of the stage, nodded confidently to the conductor...
...audience had, in fact, come to honor both the living and the dead. The final lush chords of Boito's music (from his operas Mefistofele and Nerone) were drowned by applause. But when 81-year-old Conductor Toscanini hopped spryly down from the podium, the whole house was on its feet screaming "viva il maestro;" cried one voice, "Non c'e che lui" (he's in a class by himself). For 19 minutes the bedlam continued; the soloists (two of whom, Soprano Herva Nelli and Baritone Frank Guarrera, Metropolitan audition winner, had been brought from...
Ravel: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Leonard Bernstein, pianist-conductor, with the Philharmonic Orchestra of London; Victor, 5 sides). Ravel was feeling the hot breath of Gershwin on his neck when he wrote this one in 1932; Bernstein gives it dewy-eyed, loving treatment. Recording (on Vinylite): excellent...
...last week Astrid was enjoying something no singer ever gets too much of: bravos. Mexico City's new opera season had run into trouble. The visiting conductor was stewing about the hot trumpeters and nightclub fiddlers the musicians' union had sent him; a leading tenor was feuding with the conductor. Could the chaotic season be steadied by a singer whom Mexican operagoers especially liked? The Opera Nacional had persuaded Astrid to come down and try some popular Italian operas. As usual, Astrid, who had never sung an Italian role, was glad to help...
...movie studios, which have first call on his musicians, are his biggest worry. His favorite Hollywood story: "Only a tympanist was present for all four rehearsals before an important concert. When the conductor congratulated him, he said 'Thank you, Maestro-but I'm afraid I can't make the performance...