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...personal instruction, he is highly praised by his students for his interest and teaching ability. He now hopes for a General Education course which would stress student participation in music. Choral works from important periods would be sung by members of the course: Plainsong, Ars Nova, the Renaissance, Bach, Beethoven, and Stravinsky. In this way, the students would "get inside the music." Lectures would relate the compositions to the artistic philosophy of the times. Fine considers a similar course for the many chamber music performers in the University of equal value...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). All-Beethoven program. Conductor: Bruno Walter...
...Bozo. When it was all over, Conductor Monteux admitted the tombola had been fun, "but not musique sérieuse." He was already thinking about the Beethoven cycle he will conduct next month: "Now that is sérieux, but not so sérieux as to frighten. Beethoven is not a bore...
Schumann: Manfred Overture (the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 3 sides). One of Toscanini's greatest performances on records. Beethoven's Consecration of the House Overture, on the remaining three sides, doesn't give Toscanini as much to work with. Recording: excellent...
This symphony, like Beethoven's Ninth, is unique because its choral movement is so gigantic it usually overshadows the other movements. That was certainly the case last weekend. The Orchestra faithfully pledged through the first three movements. There were occasional groans from the audience when one of the brass players (hired specially to meet the requirements of Mahler's bloated score) went berserk. But starting with Nan Mcrriman's contralto solo in the fourth movement, things began to pick up, and by the time the Finale came along, everyone had forgotten the preceding movements...