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Virgil Thomson: Five Portraits (Phila delphia Orchestra, Virgil Thomson conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). The com poser's five friends (among them Pablo Picasso, Conductor Alexander Smallens) can't be as dull as his musical sketches of them. Performance: good...
Essentially, a conductor may choose from a body of music including classic, Romantic, impressionistic, and, for the purposes of definition, "modern" music. Perhaps the most important of these general classifications is that which embodies the music (loosely called "modern"), which has been written in the last five years...
Born. To Erich Leinsdorf, 33, Viennese-born conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra; and Anne Frohnknecht Leinsdorf, 28: their third child, third son; in New Rochelle, N.Y. Name: Joshua Franklin. Weight...
Serge Koussevitzky, prestigious conductor of the Boston Symphony, had a heady idea: just 50? a year from each of New England's 30 million would provide the region with three major symphonies instead of one, every city with an opera-sized concert hall, every town with a chamber-music-sized hall...
...Town (TIME, Jan. 6), still packed them in. His ballet, Fancy Free (for which he wrote the music), was the most popular Ballet Theatre attraction at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Nervous, earnest Bernstein has still not decided whether he wants to be a composer or a conductor, a jazzman or a classicist. Last week he led the municipally owned New York City Symphony for the first time, after only one week of rehearsals. He had replaced more than half of the musicians inherited from Conductor Leopold Stokowski. Now there was only one slightly bald head in the whole...