Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1950 — Page 8

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Lauritz Melchior, Helen Traubel

Impressed With Orchestra

By HENRY BUTLER

WHEN LAURITZ

MELCHIOR and

Helen Traubel sang

“Tristan” with Ernst Hoffman and the Indiana University Sym-

phony Jan. After their one rehearsal student musicians, both singers to the orchestra, “What they'd expected was just another university orches.tra, with everybody playing out of tune, Instead, they got whal they themselves sald was equal or superior to many profession

al symphonies,” Mr. Hoffman told me the other day The IU Symphony. which will

be heard here in Caleb Mills Hall Wednesday evening, Feb 8, has made phenomenal progress since Mr. Hoffman joined Dean Wilfred C. Bain's School of Music faculty in Bloomington early in 1948. It has added big items to Hoosler musical history, Mr. Hoffman and his students have done important symphonic concerts, like the Goethe program last Nov, 9, with Gladys Swarthout as soloist. Working with Hans Busch, the IU music school's operatic stage director, Mr. Hoffman and the orchestra have mpanied amazing things like the 1949 world premiere of Kurt Welll's “Down In the Valley" and last year's “Parsifal” (probably the finest student “Parsifal” ever produced in the United States), which latter will be repeated in IU auditorium next Apr. 2. r » ” ALSO on the schedule of coming events for the IU 8 Sym-

18, hoth Metropolitan artists were astounded

with Mr. Hoffman and his 98 made speeches of grateful praise phony is the Busch-Hoffman production Mar, 2 of Puccini's “La Boheme and a world premiere next May of an opera by Lukas Foss, “The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” This kind of thing is not done just with mirrors, nor is it a Svengali-hypnotism deal, Mr Hoffman started, so to speak from scratch in the IU Sym phony's fiddles, and developed an excellent string section.

Same for wind instruments. How does he do it? Twohour daily rehearsals, Monday through Friday, are only part of his incessant activily. He plans and schemes for the orchestra. He even shops around the professional symphony circuit for the kind of wind instruments he wants his students to play. Once he snapped up a genuine Czech soft-metal tuba for $350 just before some professional tuba-player offered the dealer “any price” for the rare instrument,

» r . “SOFT METAL" may sound odd, but the best tone comes

from brass instruments you can actually bend and dent with your hands. ] Mr. H Hoffman points

Chinese Break With U. S. Seen

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (UP) praised Secretary of State Dean «Angus Ward, former U. 8. ConMan-

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munists will “make over the ide-

ology of the Chinese people”

break their friendship. with the

United States, Speaking before a

woman's said.

“We're going to lose eventually and the friendship that has existed for S0_ MANY. Years - between us. and. Ward “We are going to lose the

the Chinese people,” Mr

patriotic conference yesterday, he (ree markets.”

Eastern policy, apd sald the United States should not recognize the Communist re-

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Ernst Hoffman Wins Plaudits

making musical decisions simply because they have money.

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nown as a predominantly romantic conductor. That's what

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out that most brass instruments manufactured in this country are made of hard metal, so youngsters, the biggest buyers, can handle them carelessly without completely destroying them. He's a fanatic on tone, in all

sections, “I've made up my mind what I want in tone, and I make students play that style. Sometimes that makes their teachers angry. When 1 was conducting the Houston Symphony for 11 years, professional musicians used to get angry at me because I'd tell they either had to play the way I wanted, or I'd help them get jobs elsewhere,” he told me, Prom his long European conducting experience (13 years with the Breslau Philharmonic and Opera, with guest appearances in Vienna, Munich,

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Berlin and Posen) he knows the differing national styles in manufacturing and playing instruments, “You ean't mix French and German flutes and still have a flute section,” he says. The same goes for oboes, clarinets, basséons and horns.

n ». . NOT ONLY THAT, but French horns and trumpets

must blgnd. That means mellow instruments and mellow playing in the trumpets, Mr. Hoffman says-~''No jazz-band stuff, The curse of the smaller symphony orchestras in this country is that the trumpets play all over the place.”

“It's the ensemble that makes the orchestra, not virtuoso players here and there” he insists, Besides his IU Symphony activity, the wiry little con-

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ductor who is 50, but energizes .on the 30-year level, currently is preparing the amateur Indianapolis Philharmonic Orchestra for its Feb. 14 concert in Caleb Mills Hall. At the Philharmonic’'s Nov. 29 concert, Mr. Hoffman had the amateurs, in earlier years accustomed to overtures and light symphonic works, doing the tremendous First Symphony of Brahms, and doing it remarkably well, ~ » ~ ALL THIS restless dynamism i# right in character. The story starts early, Young Ernst Hoffman, son of Jacques Hoffmann (an “nr” got dropped); assistant concertmaster during most of his 36 years with the Boston Symphony, grew up in the Hub. Ernst went to Boston Latin School and, by special dispensation, entered Harvard at age

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to build up the orchestra,” he all were the grist of experience. agimits, 18 ot ot e Jan. concert version In Breslau, which boasted the of “Tristan” repaid him. “That

third largest orchestra and opera in Europe, he had a 120piece ensemble. In the European system, as Mr. Hoffman explained, the orchestra musicians vote on hiring and firing the conductor. None of the American business of well-heeled board members

brought to fruition what I've tried to do here. I didn't have to worry about the musicians —I could just play the score,” he told me. And he added that he considers the IU Symphony now as good as the Breslau Philharmonic used to be.

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