Music: Favor for a Friend

Jukebox and symphony orchestra got together in Cleveland last week. Jukebox favorite Frankie Laine appeared with the Cleveland Summer Orchestra, a reduced (71 men) hot-weather edition of George Szell's fine Cleveland Symphony, and belted out pop songs in his familiar foghorn voice. An audience of 6,000, some sipping soft drinks, enthusiastically listened to Jezebel, Jalousie, High Noon, etc. The musicians, having swept the last delicate strands of cold-weather classics out of their instruments, backed Singer Laine with grace and good humor.

Biggest hit of the evening: the premier of the gentle, lightweight Indian Suite by Carl Fischer, eight musical sketches that proved...

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