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...BEETHOVEN: CONCERTO NO. 5 (RCA Victor). The exuberant Artur Rubinstein and the Boston Symphony's meticulous Erich Leinsdorf bow in each other's musical direction in a performance of the lordly "Emperor" Concerto that is both polished and grand...
...BEETHOVEN: CHORAL FANTASY (Columbia). Rudolf Serkin gives a crisp and exhilarating performance of this unique work for piano, chorus and orchestra, which foreshadowed the choral finale of the Ninth Symphony...
...chiaroscuro set pieces called Feste Romane, whose chief virtue is that it includes the most delicate pianissimos as well as the most plangent brass. The sweeping gold acoustical canopy carried the sound, clear and unblurred, to the furthest seat. And when Violinist Jascha Heifetz joined the orchestra in Beethoven's Concerto in D Major, every member of the audience could feel himself the epicenter of the soaring sound...
Gregory Biss will conduct the Bach Society Orchestra in its second concert of the year at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Paine Hall. The program will include works by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, and Ruggles...
...revival of his Hay Fever, produced by the National Theater and directed by Coward himself, is a sellout. Of this new production, one critic commented: " Thin' and 'trivial' is what the critics said of this play when it first appeared. So it is. And so is Beethoven's Eighth Symphony." Coward takes all this without the pretense of surprise or the arrogance of conceit. He describes his modern popularity as "Dad's Renaissance." He has a collection of short stories that is selling briskly, and another half-written. "And they're doing a collected...