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When the Boston Symphony had finished playing Piston's Third Symphony, Conductor Serge Koussevitzky led Piston by the hand onstage for two curtain calls. Koussevitzky, who always has something glowing to say about anything he introduces, told a reporter that the music could have been written only by a "finished master." Next day a Boston critic referred to it as "the best since Copland's Third" Since Boston has had no premieres of U.S. symphonies since Aaron Copland's, that was faint praise indeed...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, with Lily Pons, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Robert Merrill. Conductor: Pietro Cimara...
Grey-haired French Conductor Charles Münch, a conductor of the windmill school, lifted his baton and the cellos rumbled out a dark and ominous theme. Poet Claudel had first tied his heroine to the stake, then let her mind wander through agonizing flashbacks: memories of the coarse yells of the mob, a howling dog, rolling drums. Standout scene: Joan's trial. Claudel and Honegger make her judges animals, with Porcus, a pig, presiding. Porcus (dramatically sung by Tenor Joseph Laderoute) screams his charges and denunciations, and the chorus howls "Hérétique! . . . Sorci...
...looking Negro who, at 18, toured Loew's circuit clutching a battered straw hat and singing Ol' Man River. A friend introduced him to Hall Johnson, who had just scored his Green Pastures success. De Paur got most of his choral training as a singer and assistant conductor of the Hall Johnson Choir before...
...zone was scheduled to sing songs of all nations. Although all four occupying powers had approved the choir's appearance, a German employee of the American Information Control Division, on his own authority, notified the Russians that the choir would have to be banned. The choir's conductor, he said, had not yet been de-Nazified...