'WORDS and MUSIC 1

'WORDS and MUSIC 1

_________ 'hA} sy 'WORDS and MUSIC 1 aiS^Bw Harriett Jnhnnnn« ■ Philharmonic Benefit Nets $20,000 Pianist Artur Rubinstein not only played three concertos last night to a sold-out house in Carnegie Hall. Not only did lie help earn $20,000 for the Philharmonic-Symphony's Pension Fund. Not only did he perform with the Phil­ harmonic-Symphony, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting. He also played to a very criti­ as Amfortas, Ferdinand Frantz cal audience. At least, to him. two las Gurnemanz and Gerhard Pech- members o£ it were very critical. ner as Klingsor. His two children, six and eight, ; Saturday night at the Met finds were ensconced In a box, proud ¡a return of the “Gala Perform- as punch of their father. lance” evenings which were so “If they don’t like It they won’t I popular a few years ago. Scenes keep still," he murmured before­ and ballets from various operas hand with a worried look. “I hope will be presented, including ex­ it goes welL” cerpts from “Traviata,” “Samson Judging by their behavior and et Dalila." “Don Carlos” and expressions from my vantage “Rigoletto.” Stiedry will open point, 1 think they were pleased. proceedings by conducting tiie And so were a few thousand util- overture to ”La Forza de! De- el’s who applauded pianist, en­ stino." Lida Albanese, Jan Peerce, semble and conductor to the point Robert Merrill, Roberta Peters, of an ovation after the conclu­ Richard Tucker, Leonard Warren sion of both the Chopin Concerto and Fedora Barbieri are among in E Minor and the Rachmaninoff those who will participate. Con­ Rhapsody on a Theme of Pagani­ ductors besides Stiedry are Fausto ni. TMese were played with all of the eloquence and masterful pi- Cleva and Alberto Erode. anism. which spells the veteran artist at his best. The initial con­ certo. Beethoven's Fourth, had beautiful moments, but on the whole, the conception was stilled in relation to the understanding and subtlety which were charac­ teristic of the performances after the intermission. ‘Parsifal’ at Met Friday Wagner's consecrational music­ drama, ‘■Parsifal," will have its initial hearing of the season Fri­ day at the Metropolitan Opera at 7:15. Fritz Stiedry will conduct the work which will have Astrid Vamay as Kundry, Charles Kull- man as Parsifal, George London.

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