Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre the Boston Symphony Orchestra will give its third concert of the season in Cambridge. With M. Plerre Monteux conducting, it will give Beethoven's Third Symphony, known as the "Eroica". Mr. Jean Bedetti, first 'cellist of the orchestra will give Haydn's Concerto in D Major. The concert will close with the suite from Ravel's Ballet, "Daphnis and Chloe...
Stefan Zweig has accomplished in his biography of his friend, Romain Rolland, what Romain Holland himself had in mind when he wrote his "heroic biographies" of "Beethoven", "Michelangelo", and "Tolstoi". Rolland, in these books, wanted to write the lives of the heroes of history as he knew them. "True greatness was for him to be found only in solitude, in the struggle waged by the individual against the unseen." He aimed at bringing solace to others by showing, in the lives of these men, that their titanic and lonely struggles brought them at last to the places they so well...
When all is said and done, Mr. Monteux deserves no end of praise. Ever since the doubtful days of two years ago, the orchestra has steadily improved until it now approaches its old standard again. No one may conduct Beethoven and Wagner like Toscanni, nor Brahms and Strauss like Muck, but Mr. Monteux is probably the most well balanced conductor we have had in years, and he excels in the contemporary music of the Russian and French Schools...
...Sanders Theatre will be given tonight at 8 o'clock. The soloist this evening will be Mr. Felix Fox, planist. Single tickets for the concert may be obtained today at Kent's University Bookstore. The program arranged for the concert is as follows. Fifth Symphony in E minor Tschaikowsky Beethoven Concerto in G major, For Pianoforte 'and Orchestra. Tone Poem "Tod and Verklarung Strauss
...have time to go to the theatre, but understood that the attendance was full. A wide range of attractions was advertised,-Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was announced on a very large display poster; and other announcements offered Till Eulenspiegel, Lohengrin, Fledermaus, a wide variety of modern plays, including Erdgeist and Pandora's Box, of unsavory notoriety, and several Revues...