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...time, in fact, has anything akin to satisfaction prevailed at a New York Symphony concert until last week. Then Ossip Gabrilowitsch, borrowed from Detroit, brought it a sensitive, self-effacing performance of Haydn's C Major Symphony, Skryabin's Divine Poem, Debussy's Nuages & Fetes and Brahm's Academic Festival Overture. Manhattan, long appreciative of Pianist Gabrilowitsch, found Conductor Gabrilowitsch just as much to her liking, said so in her applause and in her press criticisms. Would Detroit spare...
...Beginning. At 26 he began as an actor of elderly character roles. Otto Brahm, Berlin impressario, offered the youth a bril liant opportunity to play in the German capital. When the time drew near for him to leave, Reinhardt regretted his acceptance, begged to be excused from the enticements of "an uncertain career" in the great city. But Herr Brahm stood adamant on his contract rights and the young man was obliged to break away from his enchanted Salzburg...
...personality to the few. This winter he permitted his private feelings more rein and the audience knew him for its own man. Of no one was there more good talk in musical Manhattan than of the tall, concentrated, sparse-haired primate of the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. He gave them Brahm's "Requiem" last week, as personal a thing as ever a German wrote. "Behold, all flesh is grass and all the glory of man is as the flower of the field," sang the Choral Symphony Society and Soprano Elizabeth Rethberg and Baritone Fraser Gange. "Behold," Conductor Furtwangler seemed...
...following is a review of the performance of Brahm's German Requiem given yesterday at Symphony Hall by the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society under the direction of M. Koussevitsky. The final performance of the Requiem will take place tonight at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall...
...offered a conservative program: Beethoven's Egmont overture, Mozart's "Eine kleine Nachtmusik," Brahm's Fourth Symphony and the Meistersinger prelude. His audience approved of his program, of his workmanship, gave him a cordial reception...