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...Agassiz House at 8:00 o'clock. Today's concert is open to the general public while on Friday only students of Radcliffe and Harvard will be admitted Tickets may be ordered through the manager of the Harvard Orchestra. Admission is free. The program follows: Overture to Egmont Beethoven The Radcliffe and Harvard Orchestras Io Son Bella Banchieri Follow Me Down to Carlow Irish Folk Song (Arranged by Percy Fletcher) Cantate Domino (Motet) Hassler The Choral Society Glory to God in The Highest Pergolesi Chorus and Orchestra Choral Prelude: Christ Lag in Todesbanden" Bach (Arranged by M. H. Holmes...
Prodigious Ruth, not half so bumptious as she looks, sees music simply. Her first heavy chord is impressively crashing in Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique but to her it is just Beethoven's father yelling "Get up !" to the boy whose practicing started at dawn. Father Slenczynski teaches young Ruth to say her prayers religiously. Be fore her conventional blessings, she asks God always "please, to make me the world's greatest pianist." Father Slenczynski thinks God has already answered his daughter's prayer...
...batons flicked into the air, releasing the music that marked the overture to the 1936-37 season. In Boston, Beacon Hillers, not content merely to clap their gloved hands, stood in deference to Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky who gravely bowed his thanks, peaked the afternoon with a peerless performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
...that given last week-end in Boston; but that does not detract from its charms. The Haydn Symphony in B flat (no. 102) which opens the concert is a masterpiece--Haydn at his very best. It is followed by Debussy's three descriptive sketches, "La Mer," and by Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
...muff which he wears in winter to protect his talented fingers from the stiffening cold of Lake Michigan's bitter breezes (see cut). Another stunt of "Bogie" Boguslawski was to play for Chicago's Station WJJD all the piano music of Bach, all the sonatas of Beethoven, in what he called a "musical marathon." Beethoven took nine weeks, Bach twelve. Two years ago Mr. Boguslawski said the music produced by most contemporary composers "gave him the hiccoughs." Fortnight ago this ebullient musician came out as a composer himself. The M. M. Cole Publishing Co. presented 20 Boguslawski piano...