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...Koussevitzky returns to conduct this week's Symphony concerts with a program which begins with Handel's Sixth Concerto Grosso and a Symphony in D by Clementi, and ends up with three Wagnerian selections. It is interesting to note that the Symphony which was written in the time of Beethoven, was lost for nearly one hundred years, being finally purchased at auction by the Library of Congress. It was subsequently revised by Alfredo Casella...
Sergei Rachmaninoff, the noted Russian composer, conductor, and pianist, is to give a recital in Symphony Hall on Sunday afternoon. His program includes four of his own Etudes Tableaux, Beethoven's Sonata Opus 109, several Chopin numbers, and Liszt's Rhapsody...
William W. Austin '39, pianist, will be the featured soloist in a program that includes works by Beethoven, Bach, and Wagner. The complete program follows: Overture to Egmont Beethoven Minuet; Gavotte C.P. Wood Choral Prelude Bach Symphony in G minor, no. 40 Mozart Prelude to Act III, Lohengrin Wagner Plano Group Aufschwung Elfe Nachtstuck Schumann Valso in E Maskowski Soloist-Austin March from Tannhauser Wagner...
Young Mr. Hirschmann banded together a non-profit organization of music lovers called the New Friends of Music, Inc., announced that they would run this winter a series of 16 concerts devoted to the more erudite chamber music and songs of Brahms and Beethoven. To attract sincere music lovers and discourage the carriage trade, they held their prices down to $1.10 top, promised to get not the most noted performers but the most competent. Old hands predicted ruefully that they would run aground. Last week when the New Friends opened the doors of New York's big Town Hall...
...show that madness may breed genius, the neurologists, headed by Dr. Abraham Myerson of Boston, cited the following admired men, more or less mad children of more or less mad parents: Hans Christian Andersen, Balzac, Beethoven, Bonaparte, Byron, Frederick the Great, Michelangelo, Newton, Poe, Swedenborg, Swift, Tolstoy...