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Dr. Sevitzky Provides the Program Noles; But Music Really Speaks for Itself

! TTT By HENRY BUTLER Some of the most attentive listeners in. the Murat for|

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ular series concert. Two of them, maybe fifth grade pupils, asked at the door, “Are boys allowed in here, and how much money is it?” Those two stayed throughout. Some few older boys left quietly between numbers. One boy, possibly 8 years old, sat on the edge of his seat, registering fascination. A little miss of maybe 6 walked down the side aisle with all the aplomb of a North Side matron, The point of this overture is simply that music should not remain forever in the luxury-enter-tainment bracket. As Brooks Atkinson wrote in last Sunday's New York Times, “the further you go down in economic levels, the more people you find who have good taste.” I agree with Mr. Atkinson, and I think that Fabien Sevitzky pos{#ibly is too eager to “explain” music in words to an audience like last night's. Maestro Sevitzky has a talent for comedy, which last night he used In gently heckling his two assistant emcees: Charlotte. Green and Richard Berryman, Technical High School seniors. Introduced by Mayor Feeney, Miss Green and Mr.

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Dr. Sevitzky's program started with Flotow's “Stradella” Overure and continued with a performance of Prokofieft’s ‘Classical Symphony.” was greatly improved over fits previous appearance this season on a Murat program. Hoagy Carmichael's “Brown|G County in Autumn” followed. Much as I admire Hoagy as a person and Brown County as an autumn landscape, I'm afraid this composition is not up to the Carmichael achievements elsewhere.

ter were duo-planists in a massively inept rendition of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” Besides the steam-hammer weight of two concert grands applied to a jazzy-

some cadenza “Improvement” of Gershwin’'s harmonies in added musical eqdivalent of com-

5. To make matters worse, the orchestra did poorly, with every important wind-instrument trance eithér inaccurate or Inaudible, The program concluded with Johann Strauss’ “Emperor Waltz.”

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Berryman bore up wittily and well under the sometimes Mephis- | tophelean questioning Dr, Sevitzky gave them. None but the simplest nouncements and program notes were needed last night, After all,

turing and convincing are those who already have their minds

is higher in the subscription-series audience than in a crowd like last

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