Official opener of New York City's summer outdoor concert season is that dapper, 53-year-old white-headed boy among U. S. bandmasters, Edwin Franko Goldman. Every summer his concerts take place during a ten-week season on alternate nights at Central Park Mall and New
York University. New York likes to come and loll on the grass, wheel its babby-carriage up & down, drink its pop as Bandmaster Goldman plays from a large, catholic repertory: chorales and fugues of Johann Sebastian Bach, waltzes of Waldteufel, operatic gems and band transcriptions of modern works like Claude...