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...opening work was the quaint Duet in D Major by Haydn. There followed the Duo for Violin and Violoncello by the contemporary composer Bohuslav Martinu, a work that is full of technical difficulties and cadenza-like passages for the two instruments. The final work was Ravel's splendid Sonata for Violin and Violoncello, which elicted the most enthusiastic response from the audience...
...composers who have come to America from abroad, Bohuslav Martinu has achieved a large measure of recognition in this country. His Czech origins shine through his music more in his melodies than in his harmonies or forms, which are modern in convention yet somewhat Baroque in spirit. He is a prolific composer, and his many pieces include mediocre works along with decidedly more successful ones. Westminster has just put out a record that illustrated both facets of his talent. The Concerto Grosso is a fine piece of music, with incisive themes and strong rhythmic drive. But its companion...
Symphony tonight will include Beethoven's Overture to Collin's drama "Coriolan," dances from "The Three Cornered Hat" by Falla (not to be confused with ecstatic Eleanor's Fellas), Dvorak's violin concerto in B minor, and Bohuslav Martinu's Sixth Symphony, which gets its premiere. Leonard Rose, soloist...
...came next, for its first visit in 13 years. Its conductor, Rafael Kubelik, was in an awkward spot, since the Chicago is not renewing his contract (the Metropolitan Opera's Fritz Reiner will succeed him). But he picked an ambitious program, including Beethoven's Eroica and Modernist Bohuslav Martinu's Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano and Kettledrums, and led his musicians in some expansive, grand-manner interpretations...
...opera. But NBC comforts itself with the thought that the next best thing to profits is prestige. Since 1949, NBC-TV has boosted its prestige with more than a dozen operas, mostly without benefit of sponsors. Last week No. 16 on the list went before the cameras: Czech Composer Bohuslav Martinu's The Marriage. Like Gian-Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors (TIME, Dec. 31, 1951), martinu's opera is short (55 minutes), written to be sung in English, and constructed with TV in mind every minute...