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...Baume Bengue radio hour, made a small hit with the Metropolitan Opera's late spring season (TIME. May 25). C In Atlantic City the Steel Pier Opera opened its ninth season, with Henri Elkan conducting Martha. Ambitiously its repertoire included Bach's Phoebus and Pan, Beethoven's Fidelia, Debussy's L'Enfant Prodigue...
...comic-strip characters, a murder, sob sisters and sport writers at work, a whole newspaper going to press. Critics found Composer Grofe's latest work exciting but unmusical, liked best Mr. Whiteman doing good reliable Gershwin. Two nights later the Dell season officially opened, with the audience cheering Beethoven's Eroica as done by swart, chunky Conductor-Pianist Jose Iturbi...
...most notable was a life of Mme Curie, to prepare for which Irene Dunne was last week visiting Mme Curie's daughter Eve in Paris. Warner Brothers, who set the vogue for serious biographies in cinema, planned six more, including Danton, Joan of Arc and The Story of Beethoven, as well as their usual investigations of singing, dancing and machine-gun shooting...
Wednesday Evening, June 17 Rhode Island Forward MarchRaymond Williams *Overture to "Euryanthe" Weber *Rondino Beethoven-Kreisler *"La Valse," Choreographic Poem Ravel *Overture to "Russlan and Ludville" Glinka Arabesque Hugh F. MacColl Chamounix Suite Florence Newell-Barbour Orchestrated by W. Leps Moonlight's Magic Spell Sunrise at Mont Blanc *Finale, Fifth Symphony Tchaikovsky Andante maestoso--Allegro vivace Dr. Wassili Leps, Guest Cond. *Selection, "The Fortune Teller" Herbert *Malaguena Lecuona-Grofe *Indian War Dance Skilton Selections Checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
...Toscanini during his decade with the Philharmonic. Yet not one commentator has failed to point to Toscanini's humility in the presence of great music. When players interrupted a rehearsal to applaud their leader, he would cut them short with: "It is not I, Gentlemen. It is Beethoven...