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...Beethoven: "Jena" Symphony (Janssen Symphony, Werner Janssen conducting; Victor; 6 sides). Experts agree that this work, unearthed in manuscript in 1909, may or may not be Beethoven. One has described it as 6/8 Haydn, ⅛ Mozart, 1/16 late Beethoven and 1/16 Schubert. It sounds like agreeable, lightweight early 19th Century music, is admirably performed and recorded...
Last week the son of a Garibaldi veteran decided it was time to sound Garibaldi's hymn again. In a Manhattan radio program to be short-waved to Italy, Arturo Toscanini conducted the NBC Symphony in his own special arrangement of the song, added the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth (V for Victory) Symphony, the overture to William Tell, The Star-Spangled Banner, and then broke into tears. Toscanini called his program "Victory, Act I." He Was preparing two more acts...
...program, it decided, should lead off with the "V for Victory" theme from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony blown on a trumpet, then fade in with the D Major theme from the Choral Finale of Beethoven's Ninth (played by low strings). After a break for announcement of the occasion, the orchestra should swing into the complete choral finale. The rest of the program should consist of music from various United Nations: China; Britain (represented preferably by German-born Handel's Hallelujah Chorus); France (represented in part by Belgian-born Cesar Franck's Pièce Heroique...
...second half of the program was the long and complex Beethoven Septet, consisting of a string quartet with three wind instruments added, which was performed with a perfect balance and dynamics hard to attain in so large a group without a director. I venture to predict that so perfect a program will not be heard in Sanders Theatre until the last of the series on August 29, when Richard Burgin will conduct another small string ensemble...
...Beethoven was the greatest of all march composers. Most dangerous: the composer of the Horst Wessel song...