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...great and beautiful city," said Conductor Josef Krips. "Why should it not have a great and beautiful orchestra?" With that, Krips set confidently to work in his new post as musical director of the San Fran cisco Symphony Orchestra. Last week he opened the regular season with an all-Beethoven program, and the new era of music that San Francisco had promised itself when he was hired seemed suddenly to have arrived...
...BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY NO. 6 ("THE PASTORAL") (RCA Victor). A sumptuous offering by Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony, encased in a fat album full of prints of famous landscape paintings and snatches from famous poems-all in celebration of nature...
Amazing, what a bunch of highly intelligent boys can do when they set their minds to it. Last night, for instance, in one and the same concert, they produced two entirely different programs. The first rested on names like Mozart, Beethoven Carter, and Des Pres. The second also returned to an age that is past, but not the one of Beethoven and Des Pres; it recreated the Harvard and Princeton that were small, select prep schools for the ministry and the law, where the boys went out on the field Saturday afternoon to have a good tussle, and the night...
...themselves bewitched by him ("He's so wonderful, especially after Stokowski") and turn up in high fashion for his concerts. On anniversary night last week, all were in their places to hear Sir John conduct a sparkling Cockaigne Overture, a disappointing Death and Transfiguration, a warm and distinguished Beethoven Seventh. Sir John's greying mane shook in a fury of excitement at every climax. Over his leprechaun's face passed fleeting expressions of sweet affection, wistful pleading and stout, unfailing pride, rather like Lord Nelson...
...Henry Swoboda, the orchestra will present the first New England performance of Dr. Piston's Symphonic Prelude. It will also give the New England premiere of Prokoflev's Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 3, honoring the composer on the tenth anniversary of his death. The concert will end with Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E-flat, the "Eroica...