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...YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS WITH LEONARD BERNSTEIN (CBS, 5-6 p.m.).* The selection of Richard Strauss's tone poem Don Quixote is reminiscent of Bernstein's widely acclaimed debut with the Philharmonic in 1943 with a program which included the Strauss work...
...nevertheless a masterful enquiry into wind dialogue. The work exhibits Stravinsky's polyphonic terseness and lucidity, and particularly his severe economy of expression in which not a single note or beat is gratuitous excess. The Octet is a collection of crystalline inflections reflecting jewel-like through the mists of Strauss' Suite. Stravinsky is the greatest master of the liberating freshness of technical discipline since Bach. His pellucid textures are never subjected to the spoilage of superfluity but rather to an intensely self-conscious merging of the intoxication of original inspiration with master-craftsmanship. The Octet reflects this Master's modality...
...first half of the program thrust us into intermission in the wake of a rather dreadful anticlimax, the Suite in B-flat for thirteen winds by Richard Strauss. This childhood product suffers from the uneasy mixture of a strong Brahmsian influence with overly thick scoring in all but the last movement. The work occasionally possesses a deep sable ambience characteristic of Strauss and is permeated with his incomparable horn writing, but the material is for the most part as boring as a bog. Strauss' penchant for opaque writing, as if he feels guilty when someone isn't playing, only redoubles...
Curt Gowdy once said, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going," and Winthrop House has proved the great sports expert right once more by rallying from its ninth-place ranking in the fall Strauss competition with three powerful winter teams...
...Intramural Department took pride yesterday in announcing the standings for the Strauss Trophy, emblematic of intramural supremacy, after the completion of the fall schedule. Leverett held a 40-point lead over Eliot (342 points), as the Bungarnered two firsts and two seconds in the four sports. The bottom three were cellar regulars Adams and Dudley, with Winthrop having a tenacious hold on last place...