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...Conductor Pierre Monteux, who had put the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra through seven rehearsals of it, scowled at the notes through his silver-rimmed glasses. After working their way through tricky phrases, the violinists looked as if they had been slapped in the face by the score. The audience, which took it tensely but manfully, seemed grateful for Tchaikovsky's threadbare Piano Concerto No. 1, which followed...
...tenor singing at once so easy and so adequate. . . . He even at one point sang a genuine open-throated pianissimo, the first I have heard in Thirty-Ninth Street since I started reviewing opera six years ago. . . . The wonderful thing took place. . . . Italian singing actors, working under an Italian conductor before an audience that was pretty largely Mediterranean, gave us real Italian opera...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Bach's Ich Ruf zu Dir, Second Brandenburg Concerto, C Minor Passacaglia and Fugue, Come, Sweet Death; Wagner's love music from Tristan und Isolde. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...
Boston Symphony (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Brahms's Tragic Overture, Second Symphony. Conductor: Bruno Walter...
...born, but a U.S. star) turned up in Berlin to sing for U.S. troops. With her as the attraction, the U.S. Military Government hastily sponsored its first concert for a mixed Allied-German audience. She agreed to perform without pay; so did the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and a Rumanian conductor named Sergiu Celibidache. The audience was mostly U.S. brasshats and diplomatic high-hats, along with some carefully screened Germans...