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...Club has made plans to appear several times this year in Symphony Hall with the Boston Symphony. Toward the end of November a repetition of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis," one of the last year's big successes, is scheduled. April 28 has been set as the date for the Bach "Mass." Dr. Koussevitsky will conduct both works...
Speeches were made by Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky, the orchestra's President Bentley Wirt Warren, Festival President Gertrude Robinson Smith. The audience, accompanied by the orchestra, sang the Luther-Bach chorale, Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott. Thus was dedicated the permanent home of the latest candidate for an "American Salzburg." Tanglewood, a large Stockbridge estate where Author Nathaniel Hawthorne used to live, was deeded by its owners to the Boston Symphony two years ago. After a concert was spectacularly rained out of a large tent last summer, energetic President Smith started a drive to raise...
Favorite Ravinia composers proved to be Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Franck, Bach, Sibelius-in that order. This suggested nothing new to the committee, since Wagner, Brahms and Beethoven were most frequently played at Ravinia this summer. Only 4% were bored by any one number, only 8% enjoyed one just moderately. The rest enjoyed everything greatly, except for five people who were bored by a whole program, ten by half of a program. One person asked for a special number next summer-"Roosevelt's Funeral March." The committee decided to look elsewhere than in questionnaires for program ideas...
...rules forbade kissing at the church altar between bride and bridegroom; the throwing of confetti or rice (an ancient fertility symbol) at the church door. Banned was secular and operatic music such as the Wagner and Mendelssohn wedding marches, Oh, Promise Me, At Dawning etc. Instead, Dr. Piepkorn recommended Bach and a number of lesser church composers. And he directed that wedding rehearsals be brief, dignified non-conversational. Apparently shocked at newspaper accounts of the casual gaiety of the rehearsal of the John Roosevelt-Anne Clark wedding last month, Dr. Piepkorn said: "They must have had a merry time...
Last month Station WQXR invited its listeners to submit lists of compositions they would like to hear, designated this month as "request month." Three hundred-odd replies contained 3,286 requests for individual compositions. WQXR's request poll found Beethoven leading, with Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Brahms, Mozart and Bach following in the order named...