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This week Jean Sibelius is 90, and the anniversary is being observed in many cities of the world. Manhattan's Symphony of the Air gave an all-Sibelius concert under the direction of a Sibelius son-in-law, Jussi Jalas; London's Philharmonia and Royal Philharmonic both scheduled Sibelius evenings; even Tokyo's NHK (radio) Symphony is going all-Sibelius for one performance...
World Music Festivals (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). All-Sibelius program. Conductor: Tauno Hannikainen...
...Conducted on opening night, in a brilliant all-Sibelius program, by famed Sir Thomas Beecham (see PERSONALITY...
...chance to rummage in Conductor Kajanus' attic in Helsinki. There he found the missing manuscripts: Lemminkäinen and the Maidens, and Lemminkäinen in Tuonela. Overjoyed, Conductor Schneevoigt got permission to perform them at Finland's 1934 Kalevala Festival. Last week, in an all-Sibelius concert by the NBC Orchestra in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, Conductor Schneevoigt gave U. S. listeners their first chance to hear the Tuonelese swan's long-lost cronies. While Manhattan's Sibelians clapped their hands with joy, soberer critics decided that the missing pieces merely filled...
...Europe Werner Janssen had chances. He has conducted in Rome, Turin, Milan, Berlin, Budapest. Herbert F. Peyser, meticulous foreign critic for the New York Times, went to Finland last winter when Janssen conducted an all-Sibelius program in the composer's presence. Critic Peyser wrote the report that won Janssen his Philharmonic engagement. Said he: "Sibelius turned to me visibly shaken and stammered, 'For the first time I am hearing my work exactly as I conceived...
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