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Between two great symphonies--Beethoven's Second and Sibelius' Fifth--is sandwiched a new violin concerto by Hill in this week's Friday Afternoon-Saturday Evening series at Symphony Hall. It should be a well-balanced and interesting program...
...Beethoven's Second Symphony in D major begins the program. It was written at a time when the composer was undergoing physical and mental suffering in Heiligenstadt, where he had been sent because of his deafness. The first movement is full of outbursts and sudden silences in marked contract with the moral elevation of the second. The scherzo and finale show Beethoven's mischief and humor, racing as they do to a strange and noisy conclusion...
...program for to-night's concert in the Sanders Theatre Series is full of originality, and should be especially interesting to Harvard men, The Boston Symphony Orchestra will play works by Haydn, Loeffler, and Piston. Beethoven's Fifth was to be last on the program, but instead our own Head of the Music Department, Professor Piston, will wind up the show by conducting his greatest (and only) symphony. Last year this symphony was played for the first time, and was a great success...
...symphony orchestras. Rebel Hirschmann decided to launch his own musical organization, founded the New Friends of Music Inc. Scheduling a series of concerts devoted exclusively to chamber music, music's New Friends offered no stars but gave steady subscribers a chance to hear all the important chamber music Beethoven and Brahms ever wrote...
...season with Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz Overture, Jean Sibelius' The Swan of Tuonela, The Return of Lemmin-käinen, Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky's suite from The Fire Bird, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Adagio and Fugue for Strings, Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting...