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From the guardian geese around the citadel of classical music there arose last week an anguished honking. An 81-year-old stockbroker named Alfred Lewis Dennis, member of Newark's venerable Bach Choral Society, wrote a long letter, hissing with protest, to FCC Chairman Frank R. McNinch. Its painful burden: the swinging of classical music...
Broker Dennis advocated severe penalties for radio stations permitting such swing raids. Immediate cause of this protest was a broadcast swing version of Bach's D Minor Toccata. Scolded indignant Mr. Dennis: "By no stretch of the imagination could such performances be tolerated except by people of no discrimination. If this is permitted to go unchallenged, swing renditions of the Mass in B Minor will follow...
Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra in his first U. S. performance of Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Symphony. Also Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, Franz Joseph Haydn's D Major (Horn Call) Symphony...
...Friends of Music Orchestra (Sun. 6 p.m., NBC-Blue) opens its first broadcasting season with Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. Fritz Stiedry conducting...
...Bach: Sonata No. 1 in G Major (Ernst Victor Wolff, harpsichord, and Janos Scholz, viola da gamba; Columbia: 4 sides). Often played on the piano and cello, this sonata has rarely been heard on the instruments for which Bach wrote it. Harpsichordist Wolff and Violinist Scholz are persuasive and authentic...