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Thursday evening in Sanders, the first concert of the usual series given in Cambridge by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting. The program: Beethoven, Fifth Symphony; Haendel, Concerto Grosso in D-minor for Strings; de Falla, Suite from "E1 Amor Brujo," and Berlioz, "Roman Carnival" Overture...
...London with lavender and mauve intellectual meanderings, has written down his opinion of the popular music of today. The essay has been published-in Vanity Fair. It defends the thesis that the evolution of popular music has run parallel, on a lower plane, with the evolution of serious music. Beethoven, ultimately and indirectly, is responsible for all the lan- guishing waltz tunes, all the dramatic jazzings, all the negroid music of the contemporary theatre and dance hall...
...life in the Garden of Eden and life in the 'artistic' quarter of Gomorrah. . . . "The people who compose popular tunes are not musicians enough .to be able to invent new forms of expression. All they do is adapt the discoveries of great men to the vulgar taste. . . . Beethoven is responsible, because it was he who first devised really effective mu- sical methods for the direct expression of passion and emotions. Beethoven's passion and emotions happened to be noble. But, unhappily, he made it pos sible for people of infinitely inferior mind and character to express...
...greatest of the past are being written today. I will present, in Boston, music never heard before, music which exists only in manuscripts which I have in my keeping, music written by men now living who will rank as high a century from now as Mozart or Beethoven!" No enemy to Jazz is Koussevitzky. It is stated of him that in London one night, stopping at a supper-club for a bite, he heard some young Americans rendering their native melodies. He listened; his bite grew cold. "I like good music," said...
...listens to a piece of music, one listens to a period of history, and if the background is anachronistic, one hears nothing. With scrupulous regard, he presents the works of the old masters as he believes they would wish them presented. Now he is looking for the American Beethoven...