Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June 3, Beethoven cycle led by Dr. Karl Muck, Hamburg...
...started out with a remarkable performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, a performance which lifted all the think covering of over popularity and consequent banality which has veiled it is recent years, and revealed it in all its vitality and originality, qualities which it has in abundance. For an American composition Mr. Monteux could not have chosen a better or a more representative than Mr. Carpenter's "Adventures in a Perambulator." Mr. Carpenter is undoubtedly the for most American composer of today, and these "Adventures", with his own program, are a thoroughly representative, and at the same time a delightful...
Friday afternoon and Saturday evening in Symphony Hall the last pair of the Symphony Orchestra concerts for this season with Mr. Monteux taking leave of orchestra and audience. The program embraces Beethoven's Fifth Symphony; Carpenter's "Adventures in a Perambulator"; Debussy's "L'ApresMidi Midi d' un Faune" and the Overture to "Tanuhaeuser...
...Meanwhile the Philharmonic Orchestra got through one of its two positively final farewell encore appearances under Mr. Mengelberg. The parting diet consisted of another performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (TIME, March 17), with a plangent, daringly lugubrious Bach cantata, Selig ist der Mann, as dessert...
...featured George's own Symphonic Digest, a "condensation of the great city's symphony life, written for the convenience of those who find it inconvenient to attend the orchestra concerts of a week in the music season." How many such must there be! The work comprised 14 quotations from Beethoven, seven from Tschaikowski, three each from Dvorak and Brahms, two each from Schubert and Liszt, and one each from Johann Strauss, Mozart, Franck, Mahler, Bizet, Verdi, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Mascagni. The mixing of musical drinks could not go much farther. And the audience said: "Delightful...