Capital Feast

New Yorkers, who are used to a rich musical diet, were not noticeably impressed by the bill-of-fare. Yet on one night last week Manhattan musicgoers, if they liked opera, had a choice of Madama Butterfly at the Met or Eugen Onegin at the City Center in its first New York performance in eleven years. If they wanted symphony, they could hear their own Philharmonic--with Violinist Mischa Elman--at Carnegie Hall, or hear Serge Koussevitsky's famed Boston Symphony, playing an "overflow" concert, one of four performances the Bostonians played in New York last week.

On other nights last week New Yorkers could hear brilliant, brash Lenny Bernstein's New York City Symphony playing the new music that the older conductors ignore. They crowded into recitals by Singers Marian Anderson, Carol Brice and Giuseppe De Luca; concerts by Pianists John Kirkpatrick and Alexander Brailowsky (who in six programs is playing every solo piano piece Chopin wrote). There were folk songs and ballads, American songs by Tom Scott, South African veld songs by Josef Marais, and jive concerts all over the place.

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