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Philadelphia Orchestra (Sat. 5 p.m., CBS). Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, Kabalevsky's Overture to Colas Breugnon. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy...
Boston Symphony (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Haydn's C Minor Symphony, No. 95, Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin, Prokofiev's Suite from the ballet Chout. Conductor: Richard Burgin...
Holdout. In New Rochelle, N.Y., an elderly woman boarded a train, told the conductor, "I didn't buy this ticket today," gave him one dated September...
Dorn plays Leopold Goronoff, as great a conductor and pianist as his name would suggest, and personally accounts for fourteen of the twenty-three Rachmaninoff tidbits. He discovers a budding young pianistic genius on a Pennsylvania farm in the person of Myra Hassman, who plays the Concerto twenty-seven times and addresses Goronoff incessantly as "Maestro." At her New York debut she plays guess what too well to suit Goronoff's touchy ego, so they split and she marries a Pennsylvania farmer who's Almost as good and kind as he is stupid. After a number of obvious events masquerading...
...success achieved by the Opera Theatre, however, should by no means point out its efforts as the solution to the "opera problem" of the twentieth century, for there is no denying that musical values are sacrificed by overemphasis on stage effect. Conductor Goldovsky's order to his singers not to look at him during the course of the performance, for example, may have added to the stage reality of the production, but it surely did not add to the necessarily exact timing between the orchestra, solo voices, and chorus. And despite the obvious virtues of understanding gained by using English...