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...many a pragmatic U. S. maker of musical instruments, for sales have risen sharply in the past two years. This week, in a book called A Little Night Music,* a plea was entered not for more Gershwin and Kern on home saxophones, but for more bum Brahms and Beethoven, played by groups of amateurs on their flutes, clarinets, fiddles, cellos. Its author is Gerald White Johnson, editorial writer of the Baltimore Sun, co-author of The Sunpapers of Baltimore. Though Author Johnson says he is dull of ear and asbestos of soul so far as "the fire of genius that...
...Sullivan once wrote, "I lived in a sort of perpetual daydream." He left school early, went to work for an electrical manufacturer who shortly took such an interest in his mathematical bent that Sullivan was able to complete his education at London University. Beethoven and Dostoyevski were tremendous experiences which dazed him. He visited the U. S., went back for the War which so shattered him that he was forced to rebuild his life. He wrote a book on Beethoven and an autobiographical novel in which he manifested an impressive lack of interest in politics, business, social gatherings, bank holidays...
...Conductor Koussevitzky heard the distinct click, beamed, pronounced: "Fine! Fine! Very good!'' Next evening as the sun dropped behind the green hills, Conductor Koussevitzky stood on the podium in un-summery white tie and tail coat, tapped his baton, raised his arms for the portentous opening of Beethoven's Leonore Overture...
...Essex County Symphony completed its second season of four performances in a stadium near Newark, N. J. Led by Erno Rapee, supported by a 100-piece orchestra, 260 New Jersey singers participated in the Beethoven Ninth...
Monday Evening, May 24 *Coronation MarchMeyerbeer *Overture to "Egmont" Beethoven *The Flight of the Bumble-bee Rimsky-Korsakov *"Cavalleria Rusticana," Fantasia Mascagni *"Peer Gynt" Suite Grieg Morning Mood--Anitra's Dance--In the Hall of the Troll King *Ave Maria Bach-Gouned *Polovetzkian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin *"Danube Waves," Waltzes Ivanovici *Prelude in G minor Rachmaninoff *Carioca Youmans...