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...Cambridge concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was dedicated to the memory of the late President Charles William Eliot, the father of these local concerts. For this occasion an orthodox programme of Bach, Beethoven, and Schubert, President Eliot's favorite composers, was played. Again we enjoyed the invigorating Third Brandenburg Concerto, a favorite of all musicians and music-lovers. If we should desire to quibble, we might suggest a bit quicker tempo for the last movement, but let it suffice to say that Father Bach himself could hardly have given a more full-blooded and flowing performance. The Unfinished Symphony...
...regular Cambridge concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was the occasion for the debut of Mr. Walter Piston as composer and conductor. Mr. Piston's Concerto for orchestra has obviously been inspired by the Brandenburg concerti of Bach for its general form of using the various choirs of the orchestra as collective soloists in the contrapuntal development of several themes. The opening theme is indeed very similar to that of the third Brandenburg. The harmonic development seems always to begin with the more orthodox manner and to court the modern idiom for complexity, at the same time employing modern modes...
...broadcast this afternoon from 2.30 P.M. to 4 P.M. over WABC a wholesome programme of Beethoven and Bach: the Leonore Overture No. 3 and the violin concerto in D major with Yehudi Menuhin as soloist, and then the Fugue in G minor, Prelude in E flat minor, and the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F. On Saturday evening at 8.15 P.M. over WEAF the Boston Symphony Orchestra, assisted by Jesus Maria Sanroma, will play the Mozart Symphony in E flat major; Professor Edward Burlingame Hill's Concertino for the piano and orchestra; the Prelude to the oratorio "Gerontius...
...tempt Hero Hans a beauteous U. S. heiress appears, but Hans scorns a life of ease in the U. S., rushes to do Nazi battle in the streets of Berlin and dies, as did Horst, assassinated by Reds. In the final scene Nazis march triumphant under Berlin's Brandenburg Gate to celebrate Hitler's rise to Chancellor. While this closing episode was being filmed excited Storm Troopers beat up a U. S. spectator who failed to salute the Nazi banner. To salute it as it flashed on the screen up popped last week's entire audience, including...
Storm centre of the Church crisis was earthy young Rev. Joachim Hossenfelder who looks in his Nazi uniform anything but a bishop. He remained last week Bishop of Brandenburg, despite charges that he seeks to paganize the Church. He it was who sat approvingly through a speech by one of his subordinates who in Berlin's vast Sportpalast called for scrapping of the Old Testament on the ground, among others, that much of it was written by "Jewish pimps...