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...Beethoven's genius, evident when he was five, flourished before he was twelve...
Friday afternoon, in Symphony Hall, the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Mr. Pierre Monteux opened its forty third season, starting off, as is this year's fashion, with Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, wading through the Brahms-Hayden variations, climbing over "La Perl" of Dukas, to the voluptuous heights of the dance of Salome, from Richard Strauss's opera of like name...
Lawrence Gilman has called the Seventh Symphony the "most beautiful symphony in the world." Others may and do disagree. But opinion is curiously uniform in praise of this symphony. It is Beethoven at his zenith, technical if not emotional. It is not a big symphony, big as are the third, the fifth or the ninth. It does not belong in or fit into the usual categories. It is unique, and uniquely fascinating. Mr. Monteux's version of it is as an ascending, expanding, dynamic thing, culminating in a veritable rhythmic orgy, was thoroughly logical; to some listeners it seemed that...
...next week Mr. Monteux has chosen Rachmaninov's long and too familiar symphony, a Habanera of Aubert, and the overture to Smetana's "Bartered Bride": Mme Elizabeth Rethberg will sing arias from Wagner and Beethoven...
...music by contemporary composers to as great an extent as possible. A further effort will be made to play as many of those compositions as possible which have been composed by member of the University. A few classical numbers, especially those of Mozart, Mendelsohn, Shubert, and Beethoven, will be retained...