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Seventh Symphony, most pretentious of the three, used Beethoven's great opus as an accompaniment for somewhat irrelevant but agreeably spectacular choreographic capers...
Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p.m., NBC-Blue) conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra in Richard Strauss's Don Quixote, Gioachino Antonio Rossini's Ceneventola, Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
Walter Damrosch (Fri. 2 p. m. NBC-Blue), in 60 minutes of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Wagner. Grainger, Tchaikowsky and others, returns for his eleventh successive season as patriarch of classical music educators...
...with a thoroughly orthodox program of works by Berlioz, Mozart, and Dvorak. Frankly, the program sounds like a Sunday evening Pops concert; certainly, it shows little of the customary interest for which Koussevitzky as a program builder, has become justly famous. Recalling with extreme satisfaction the magnificent reading of Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony which began last season's concerts, the Symphony in E minor, "From the New World" by Dvorak, is something of a letdown. We cannot believe that Koussevitzky was governed in his choice by the holiday which precedes the concert. More probably, Koussevitzky feels that this symphony...
...Boston's hoary monuments to Brahmin gentility, that still stands like the Great Pyramid, is the Boston Symphony Orchestra. At its Friday afternoon concerts in venerable Symphony Hall, bald, spade-bearded oldsters and their classically corseted wives sit complacently, laved in the patrician strains of Beethoven and Brahms. So have they sat every week since the late Major Henry Lee Higginson, in 1881, materialized the expensive idea that Boston ought to have a good symphony orchestra. That idea cost Major Higginson a million dollars...