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...highest order, to state it conventionally. The composition itself is one of the most intriguing of its kind. It is really a set of variations for piano and orchestra in a sort of symphonic union, a large-scale and serious continuation of the variation form of Haydn and Beethoven: for example, the last movement of "Eroica". The opening themeing is a characteristic of Franck, being rather mournful in essence but soon developed dramatically. From this "Sehnsucht" beginning the piece undergoes a transformation of mood and ends quite joyously...
Miss Shirley Bagley, the Mason and Hamlin prize winner, played the First Piano Concerto of Beethoven. In a white lace gown with red trimmings Miss Bagley played with clarity and ease and also one eye on Herr Doctor Koussevitzky. It is of course early Beethoven but there is more virile stuff here than the reading of last evening ever allowed us to imagine; after all, it was written in the period of the Pathetique Sonata. And for the Sibelius' Second Symphony the writer has nothing but admiration for this full-blooded expression of lyric and dramatic poetry of music. There...
...interval because M. Pochon has been suffering from a bad wrist. They will play in the Fogg Art Museum at eight o'clock the following programme: Mozart's Quartet in E flat major, Kochel No. 428; La Oracion del Torero by Joaquin Turina; a Scherzo of Glazounow; and the Beethoven Quartet, Opus...
...radio permits us to hear three unusually distinctive symphony concerts this week-end. Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra will broadcast this afternoon from 2.30 P.M. to 4 P.M. over WABC a wholesome programme of Beethoven and Bach: the Leonore Overture No. 3 and the violin concerto in D major with Yehudi Menuhin as soloist, and then the Fugue in G minor, Prelude in E flat minor, and the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F. On Saturday evening at 8.15 P.M. over WEAF the Boston Symphony Orchestra, assisted by Jesus Maria Sanroma, will play the Mozart Symphony in E flat major...
...joint concert to be given at Northampton on Saturday evening, the Harvard and Smith Glee Clubs will combine to sing "Elegischer Gesang" by Beethoven, "Swansea Town" by Holst and "Cum Sancto Spiritu" by Bach...