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...student is led to a more enlightened attitude toward the "rules" by such wise statements as the following: "the so-called rules of harmony represent what is done by all and hence might be termed the platitude of music. If we speak of rules being broken by Bach or Beethoven, we are strengthening the popular misconception that the rules were made for composers to follow, whereas the process is just the opposite...
...Glee Club and the Choral Society will give together "O Fons Bandusiae," a Horatian ode set to music by Randall Thompson '20, "John Brown's Song," by Delancy, the "Gesang der Parzen," from Opus 89 by Brahms, Beethoven's "Elegischer Gesang," from Opus 118, and "Nunist das Heil," from Bach's Cantata No. 50. The Glee Club alone will render "Two Choruses for Men's Voices," from Mozart's "Cantatas for the Freemasons," while Loefiller's "By the Waters of Babylon," will be sung by the Choral Society...
...afternoon. In New York's Carnegie Hall a great audience rose to its feet as a slender little man with a stick under his arm made his way as swiftly and inconspicuously as possible to the conductor's stand. For him the business of the afternoon was Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, the Franck D Minor. But for once he had to pause until the audience had shown its reverence for Arturo Toscanini...
...conductors. Toscanini's 14 Beethoven concerts sold out to the doors. The Wagner performances planned for April 15, 22 and 29 should do as well. Toscanini's greatest admirers wish that he had Koussevitzky's skill at program-making, that he did not lavish so much of his genius on mediocre scores by his countrymen. But no criticism touches the Maestro so long as he feels that he is faithful to a composer's intention. Once he has made a decision nothing can budge him. He took a beating in Bologna three years ago rather than...
...regular week-end series of concerts will present the Twelfth concerto Grosse of Handel, the "Adelaide" Concerto of Mozart and the Beethoven Concerto in D, played by Yohudi Menuhin, and Three Excerpts from "the Damnation of Faust" by Berlioz...