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...innovation for the pit: Bruno Walter would conduct performances of Beethoven's opera Fidelio, with Flagstad as Leonore...
When the big night came last week, a sell-out audience in Louisville's Columbia Auditorium warmed up on Wagner and Beethoven. After intermission, the musicians took their places upstage behind a translucent curtain. As the music began somberly, Dancer Graham was discovered standing motionless on the stage's apron...
Back to Boris? Paid off by luck, big George was picking his way carefully. He was not quite ready for a Manhattan debut recital, he thought. But he had signed to sing in Mahler's Symphony No. 8 with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in April and in Beethoven's Ninth with the Philadelphia Orchestra in May. Almost closed was a deal to sing in The Marriage of Figaro at the Edinburgh Festival this summer...
...Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 (the San Francisco Symphony, Pierre Monteux conducting; Victor, 8 sides, 45 r.p.m.). This happy early work is the least heard of the nine symphonies; the nicely adjusted performance of the San Francisco, under happy Pierre Monteux, will make listeners wonder why. Recording: excellent...
...Beethoven: Sonata No. 2: (Claudio Arrau, pianist; Columbia, 2 sides, LP). One of Beethoven's better middle-period sonatas (the "Waldstein"), played with great energy, eloquence and understanding. Recording: good...