The Brussels All - Stars

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The Brussels All-Stars

Monday, Jul. 28, 1958


"Other American offerings at the Brussels World's Fair may stir assorted
snorts, crank complaints and real misgivings, but U.S. musical fare is a
solid hit. Against such exotic competition as the Peking Opera, Congoese
Dancers and the Bolshoi Ballet, the U.S. gets top marks for a first-rate
music and dance program on a shoestring budget. "The Americans," wrote De
Standaard, "are producing musical activity that can truly be called unique."

Last week crowds thronged to hear the student orchestra of Manhattan's
Juilliard School of Music play its first concert in the fair's Grand
Auditorium, responded with such applause that Conductor Jean Morel had to
come back and lead two encores from Stravinsky's Firebird. And the main
fairgrounds competition the Juilliard musicians had to buck came from
another U.S. group: Jerome Robbins' "Ballets: U.S.A." troupe, which at the
same hour was packing the U.S. Pavilion Theater by presenting such gustily
American dance pieces as The Concert and New York Export: Opus Jazz.

Other attractions on the U.S. Performing Arts program: the New York City
Center Light Opera Company's Carousel and Wonderful Town (wrote Ghent's Het
Volk: "An absolute revelation!"), and the New York City Opera's Susannah by
Carlisle Floyd. Crowds also jammed the Grand Auditorium to hear Violinist
Isaac Stern play three times with the Philadelphia Orchestra, turned out
again when the Philadelphians and Pianist Van Cliburn played the piece that
catapulted him to fame-Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1.

Some of the finest solo talents in the U.S. turned up for one-night stands:
Singers George London, Blanche Thebom, Leontyne Price, Robert McFerrin,
Pianist Byron Janis, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Still to come are Pianist
Leon Fleisher, Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick, Singers William Warfield,
Eleanor Steber, Harry Belafonte. The world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's
opera Maria Golovin will take place in Brussels, and some performers from
the Newport Jazz Festival will appear. The most cherished scheme of U.S.
Performing Arts Coordinator Jean Dalrymple: to find a well-heeled angel who
will underwrite a live run of Pajama Game.

The program, which would cost millions to reproduce in the U.S., runs on a
mere $500,000, chiefly because many artists agreed to work for the Equity
minimum, or came at their own expense. Coordinator Dalrymple still has a
number of dates open. But however she fills them, her program has already
made a lasting impression on bedazzled Europeans..."

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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...810452,00.html

The Brussels All-Stars

Monday, Jul. 28, 1958


"Other American offerings at the Brussels World's Fair may stir assorted
snorts, crank complaints and real misgivings, but U.S. musical fare is a
solid hit. Against such exotic competition as the Peking Opera, Congoese
Dancers and the Bolshoi Ballet, the U.S. gets top marks for a first-rate
music and dance program on a shoestring budget. "The Americans," wrote De
Standaard, "are producing musical activity that can truly be called
unique."

Last week crowds thronged to hear the student orchestra of Manhattan's
Juilliard School of Music play its first concert in the fair's Grand
Auditorium, responded with such applause that Conductor Jean Morel had to
come back and lead two encores from Stravinsky's Firebird. And the main
fairgrounds competition the Juilliard musicians had to buck came from
another U.S. group: Jerome Robbins' "Ballets: U.S.A." troupe, which at the
same hour was packing the U.S. Pavilion Theater by presenting such gustily
American dance pieces as The Concert and New York Export: Opus Jazz.

Other attractions on the U.S. Performing Arts program: the New York City
Center Light Opera Company's Carousel and Wonderful Town (wrote Ghent's
Het
Volk: "An absolute revelation!"), and the New York City Opera's Susannah
by
Carlisle Floyd. Crowds also jammed the Grand Auditorium to hear Violinist
Isaac Stern play three times with the Philadelphia Orchestra, turned out
again when the Philadelphians and Pianist Van Cliburn played the piece
that
catapulted him to fame-Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1.

Some of the finest solo talents in the U.S. turned up for one-night
stands:
Singers George London, Blanche Thebom, Leontyne Price, Robert McFerrin,
Pianist Byron Janis, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Still to come are Pianist
Leon Fleisher, Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick, Singers William Warfield,
Eleanor Steber, Harry Belafonte. The world premiere of Gian Carlo
Menotti's
opera Maria Golovin will take place in Brussels, and some performers from
the Newport Jazz Festival will appear. The most cherished scheme of U.S.
Performing Arts Coordinator Jean Dalrymple: to find a well-heeled angel
who
will underwrite a live run of Pajama Game.

The program, which would cost millions to reproduce in the U.S., runs on a
mere $500,000, chiefly because many artists agreed to work for the Equity
minimum, or came at their own expense. Coordinator Dalrymple still has a
number of dates open. But however she fills them, her program has already
made a lasting impression on bedazzled Europeans..."

/

--
--
Best
Greg

" I find Greg Morrow lowbrow, witless, and obnoxious. For him to claim
that
we are some
kind of comedy team turns my stomach."
- "cybercat" to me on rec.food.cooking