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...Walter expects to dust a few cobwebs from the Bruckner Eighth. All of which means that an increasingly mature music public is starting to demand its share of lesser-known, lesser-played works. Having been fed for the past decade on a staple diet of symphonic roast beef-the Beethoven and Brahms symphonies, Wagner excerpts, Von Weber overtures-it is now broadening out, rather inquisitively poking its nose into a lot of stuff that for many years has lain around in cold storage. A good deal of this stuff is plain junk, and will go right back into cold storage...
Newark, N. J.'s Station WOR hired him for a series of Sunday-night half-hours (Mutual network) of purest Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, with an orchestra conducted by WOR's Music Director Alfred Wallenstein. Never before, thought Director Wallenstein, had a single station presented a series of such high calibre...
...Beethoven: Quartet No. 14 in C Sharp Minor (Budapest String Quartet; Columbia; 10 sides; $5.50). Among Beethoven's last and loftiest musings, faultlessly recaptured by the Budapesters...
...England Chapter of the American Musicological Society will meet at 8:15 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House. Professor Hubert W. Lamb will speak on "Notes on Accented Ornamentation in Beethoven...
...late recording: Beethoven's Quartet Opus 18 No. 5, recorded by the Coolidge Quartet. The quartet, one of those early six in which Beethoven found his style, is played with plenty of spirit by the Coolidge Quartet, but is a little raw, lacking the perfect integration of a quartet like the Budapest...