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...remainder of the program is taken up with Debussy's three symphonic sketches, "La Mer," and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The former is delightful musical description of a light, joyous variety (there is no great storm or torrent as in many other program pieces with similar names). The latter is often considered the greatest of Beethoven's nine symphonies; but let the music speak for itself--it is far more eloquent than mere words...
...Orchestra are giving an orchestral program at Symphony Hall tonight at nine o'clock. Brahms's Academic Festival Overture will be played as well as the slow movement and scherzo from Professor Hill's String--Sinfonietta, and Ravel's "Daphnis and Chloe" (second suite). The concert will close with Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Members of the orchestra under Dr. Koussevitzky will give a program of eighteenth century music at four o'clock tomorrow afternoon in Sanders Theatre. Bach's Suite No. 2 in B minor for Flute and Strings, Haydn's Symphony in G major, No. 88, and Mozart...
...Philadelphia last fortnight, at a Robin Hood Dell Concert, José Iturbi led the Philadelphia Orchestra and Violinist Albert Spalding through the first movement of a Beethoven concerto. When, in a brief interval that followed, news cameramen began popping flashbulbs and snapping pictures, Iturbi and Spalding flounced off the stage. From an anteroom where they fumed & raged for ten minutes, a chair came whizzing into the audience's view. Explained Iturbi later: "I was annoyed and I blew...
...Italian maestro, still hotly anti-Nazi, learned of plans to broadcast Salzburg events to Germany, he seethed & stormed, vowed to depart and never return if any performance under his baton was sent across the border. Last week while Salzburgers were hearing a familiar, first-rate Toscanini performance of Beethoven's Fidelio and a familiar, even better Toscanini version of Die Meistersinger, cafe talk was all of how the grey little conductor had rehearsed the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra to a frazzle in an effort to bring it up to the standard of his New York Philharmonic Symphony. One story...
...booked for 47 U. S. concerts during the summer. In the Lewisohn Stadium, where three years ago he managed for the first time to make the U. S. think of him as a conductor, Iturbi appeared in a white flannel suit, dark blue shirt and white tie, played Beethoven vigorously. The audience approved the addition of tables at which to sit and drink during the concert...