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Edward Ballantine, associate professor of Music, emeritus, will offer his annual Dunster House piano recital tonight at 7:45 o'clock in the Large Common Room. The concert will be open to all University members. Included on the program are selections by Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin, and Martinu...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:15-7:30 p.m., NBC). Arturo Toscanini conducts Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...
Hovhaness has written eight symphonies, but now regards with contempt all the music he wrote up to four years ago. Says he: "Western music probably reached its peak with Mozart, and certainly with Beethoven. Since then, more & more it has become overloaded with superficial harmony; like some baroque building it seems about to collapse with ornamentation...
...yesterday, and the soloists, Carol Brice, David Lloyd (tenor), James Pease (baritone), and Wesley Addy (speaker) were better than good. The Harvard Glee Club was at its best in voice and control for the occasion. Before the main event Dr. Koussevitzky and orchestra gave their customarily rigid performance of Beethoven's Fourth Symphony, the first and last movements of which remain to this critic deserts of brisk but avid content...
Like most touring violinists, Francescatti finds U.S. orchestras slow about playing anything but the threadbare "boxoffice concertos" (Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky). Recently he wanted to play Prokofiev's Concerto No. 2 with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and was told he couldn't because it would take an extra orchestra rehearsal, an expensive proposition. But he enjoys exploring the U.S.'s musical hinterland, playing old works in towns where they are still new. Says he: "In Europe, there is always the memory of the greats before you; there is always Joachim.* In new cities, you yourself can be Joachim...