Word: allegro
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...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Menotti Salta's Nostalgic Serenade, Goldmark's Overture to In Springtime, Debussy's Nuages and Fêtes, Borodin's Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor, Fritz Kreisler's Sicilienne et Rigaudon, Prelude and Allegro. Conductor: Frank Black...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Dame Myra Hess, in her first U.S. radio concert since 1939, plays her own arrangement of Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, and the Allegro of Mozart's Concerto No. 23 in A Major...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Twentieth Century composers; including Ravel's Mother Goose and Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for strings; Wilfred Pelletier, guest conductor...
...high spot of the evening was the opening piece: Vivaldi's Concerto in G Minor. The strong chair of the orchestra played perfectly and with a fine grasp of the rhythmical complexity of the work; the rapid fire allegro with which it closed left everybody sweated, excited, and happy...
...Simonds not only is a remarkably able pianist but also possesses a thorough knowledge of Beethoven's Concerto was evidenced by the facility and technique of his performance. His cadenza in the First Movement presented the theme powerfully, yet simply, and throughout the second (Largo) and third (Rondo Allegro) movements his interpretation continued to be spirited and full. It was regrettable that the attack of the orchestra seemed slightly rusty in the first movement, but this fault decreased as the work progressed...