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Conductor Reiner, 59, a grown-up wonder boy who conducted his first orchestra at twelve, would have little trouble finding some other podium to wave from. He is a first-rate conductor of Mozart and Strauss operas-and the Metropolitan Opera badly needs additional conductors (one recently died, two others have been ill on & off). Besides, there is the increasingly attractive guest conductors' circuit, with few of the cares and all the pleasures of a regular berth. At week's end, the Minneapolis Symphony snapped him up for eight concerts in October. The only real loser was Pittsburgh...
Punch & Power. Peter Grimes is more than a new opera; for the Met it is a new kind of opera. Dissonance has been heard in the Met's hallowed halls before-in Strauss's Elektra and Salome. Bernard Rogers' The Warrior, which was flashed on & off last year, was nonsensically dissonant. Britten's music runs from perky jigs in the woodwinds to forceful, discordant barkings in the brass. The Met's soggy chorus would need a shot in the arm to handle some of the rounds, which sound like sea chanties and are as complex...
Columbia Concert Orchestra (Sun. 11:30 p.m., CBS). U.S. premiere of Richard Strauss 's Oboe Concerto. Soloist: Mitchell Miller...
Entered are three quintets from Thayer, two from Matthews and Weld, and one apiece from Dudley, Holworthy, Lionel, Massachusetts, Mower, Stoughton Strauss, and Wigglesworth. Action will be divided into two eight-team sections, with playoffs at the close of the campaign...
...What's the difference between nether garments and trousers in Scotland?" asked schoolmasterish Henry Strauss, Tory member for Combined English Universities. "Kilts!" shouted a Socialist backbencher, and the Sassenachs laughed again. But it was the Scots who had the last laugh after all, for the English, who had no kilts to fall back on, were themselves having trouser trouble...