THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Jewish Music on the Continent
By MARGUERITE CHAJES
(Editor's note: Mar-
guerite Kozenn Chajes, a
Detroiter who lives part of
the year in Vienna,
teaches and lectures on
music, and here reports
about outstanding Ameri-
can and Israeli perform-
ances last summer at var-
ious music festivals.)
Starting with the festival
month in Vienna one heard
U.S. conductors Lorin Maa-
zel and Julius Rudel with
the Vienna Symphony or-
chestra and violinist Nathan
Milstein.
About the latter the
"Vienna Kurier" wrote,
"The 70-year old violinist
played Bach's partita and C
major sonata with admira-
ble energy and unlimited
concentration in perfect
beauty and clarity.
"One sat like in the
church, devout, humble,
pious and prayed to the
music of Bach. The audience
left the concert with the
conviction, that it had expe-
rienced one of the most
beautiful concerts of this
wonderful musician!"
Israeli violinist Itzhak
Perlman was heard in Salz-
burg and Lucerne. About
the Israeli Philharmonic
orchestra, its conductor Zu-
bin Mehta and Perlman, the
foremost Lucerne music
critic wrote, "The listeners
were aware of having heard
one of the greatst violinists
of the century. They re-
sponded with a thunderous
ovation! Perlman encored
with a composition by Fritz
Kreisler, whose 100th birth-
day was commemorated
this year. It was an hom-
age and a noble gesture by
the 30-year old Israeli musi-
cian !"
About the, Israeli Phil-
harmonic orchestra one
read, "This orchestra
from a country beset by
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permanent crises, im-
presses the listener to a
moral spite! It seems that
it plays even under bomb-
ing, but it does not pay at-
tention to the war, as if
musical intensity were a
medium of defense against
any sort of agression.
"The will for survival of
the entire people seems to be
manifested in Jewish musi-
cians. Therefore the con-
certs of this orchestra are to
be considered, especially in
foreign countries, as an ex-
pression of a national dyna-
mism. It is more culture-
politically determined than
other orchestras."
In Salzburg, Leonard
Bernstein appeared in triple
functions, as conductor,
pianist and composer. From
the international press he
received "hymns of praise"
and the audience gave him
standing ovations.
However, the great
"discovery" at the Salzburg
festival was the debut of the
33-year old Met conductor
James Levine. He started
his career as a child pianist
and in his early twenties be-'
came the assistant to
George Szell with the Cleve-
land Symphony orchestra.
His appearance was de-
scribed as a "sensational
triumph! The ovations were
long and widespread as
never before witnessed in
this festival season r
Recently, 20-year old Is-
raeli conductor Daniel Oren
won the first prize of the
Karajan-competition in Ber-
lin. He received the "gold
medal," $4,000 and various
offers from Germany and
other countries.
Among well known con-
ductors on the continent are
the Israelis Moshe Atzmon,
Eliahu Imbal and Gary Ber-
tini.
During the Munich op-
era festival 1976, the world
premiere of Josef Tal's
opera "The Temptation"
will take place. Tal is head
Israel May Enter
World Space Race
UNITED
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(JTA) — Israel is deeply in-
terested in the use of space
knowledge for a better ex-
ploitation of solar energy
and would be ready' to con-
tribute to the work of the
Committed on Outer Space,
Israel's representative, Am-
bassador Amiel Najar, said
in an an address to the Gen-
eral Assembly's First Corn
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mittee on Outer Space Prob-
lenis.
Najar said his country
was also in favor of full ac-
cess of states to information
on their territory through
tele-observation or tele-de-
tection of the earth. He said
Israel favored a wide ex-
change of scientific and
technological information.
Najar described his coun-
try's participation in IN-
TELSAT and COSPAE
(Committee of International
Council of Scientific Unions
and International Federa-
tion of Aeronautics) which
will hold its 20th session in
Israel in 1977. The 27th con-
gress of the federation is
scheduled to be held in Is-
rael in 1978.
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of the music department of
the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem.
Dr. Rolf Liebermann,
who just celebrated his 65th
birthday, is director general
of the Paris Opera house.
Daniel Barenboim, born in
Argentina, but raised and
trained in Israel, recently
signed a long term contract
with the National Orchestra
of Paris.
Andre Previn, born in
Germany and raised in Los
Angeles, is the principal
conductor of the London
Symphony Orchestra. They
too were most successful at
the Salzburg festival. Previn
will also lead the Pittsburgh
Symphony next year.
Also in Salzburg, Aus-
trian Chancellor Dr. Bruno
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