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...foreign-born conductors, Britten's English idiom was new, at first forbidding and finally fascinating. Said white-haired, Russian-born Conductor Emil Cooper, who will conduct the first performance of Grimes: "For 40 years I am a conductor, but I do not know English opera before. There is no difficulty in doing Italian opera; when you start you know what you are doing. French and German the same. This is somehow different . . . the rhythms and inflections of English speech which Britten gets into his music. . . . But I am excited...
...English proved not quite so drained of feeling as Loretta thought. When the A.P. story appeared in London papers, Londoners snorted or guffawed. Said a bus conductor: "She must be loopy." "Absurd," snapped Cockney Sally, who' serves afternoon tea in a London office...
...program will be repeated tonight and will mark Bernstein's farewell for the season after his four weeks as guest conductor of the Symphony...
Trustees of Anatolia College, Salonica, Greece, convened in Sanders Theatre Saturday and conferred an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on Conductor Dimitri Metropoulos of the Minneapolis Symphony...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 (the Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell conducting; Columbia, 8 sides). Robert Schumann called the Fourth "a slender Greek maiden between two Norse giants" (the Eroica and the Fifth). In his Columbia debut with the Cleveland Orchestra, Conductor Szell has sculptured her skillfully and gracefully. Performance: excellent...