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EDUCATION: ABC's George V. Denny, conductor of America's Town Meeting...
Last week, wearing a grown-up black dress and a black mantilla, Philippa sat with queenly poise in a box of Detroit's gold-spangled Masonic Temple Auditorium and heard the Detroit Symphony play her Nocturne before 7,000 schoolchildren. Conductor Valter Poole shrewdly programmed it after Mozart's First Symphony, composed when Mozart was eight. Neither score was great, but both showed great promise...
Once a year the Friends of the Boston Symphony-some 1,000 Back Bay Brahmins who pay the Symphony's deficits-get a concert free. To make things intimate, Boston's vast Symphony Hall is curtained off halfway back. Last week, at the annual club concert, Conductor Serge Koussevitzky led the orchestra through a typical free-treat program-a bit of Mozart, a bit of Berlioz. Then he shooed the orchestra off stage, began a short speech in Russian-coated English: "Our Boston Symphony discovered Dorothy Maynor. Today we discover another great singer-Carol Brice. I hope very...
While at Juilliard, she won the 1944 Naumburg Foundation competition, was given a free Town Hall debut last March. Conductor Fritz Reiner heard her later, in a private recital, got her to record De Falla's El Amor Brujo and Gustav Mahler's symphonic song, Eines Fahrenden Gesellen. It was actually Reiner who gave Carol her start, but Serge Koussevitzky's enthusiastic ' helping hand last week assured her future...