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...Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major (Saxonian State Orchestra, conducted by Karl Bohm; Victor; 18 sides in two volumes; $10). Devout, naive-he gratefully tipped Conductor Hans Richter one thaler (71?) after the first performance of his fourth symphony-Composer Anton Bruckner wrote some of the most prolix symphonies in history. Dresden's orchestra, one of Europe's finest, gives Bruckner's long melodies a fine recording, the only one now available...
There are no more evenings now of dressing to the ears and listening for hours on end to the stupendous heroics of Richard Wagner; no more evenings lying on his army cot at home as his Siemens record-changer riffles through the ponderous Germanisms of his other favorite, Anton Bruckner...
...30Concert Master-Medeissohn: Midsummer Night Dream Music. Grieg Piano Concerto. 8:30 Simmons College Dramatic Club. 9:00 9 O'clock Jump. 9:30 Concert Hall: Bruckner Symphony No.4. Schubert Songs: Ave Maria, Aufenthalt, Ungeduld, Erikoenig. 10:45 News...
...been a lot of resurrecting going on lately. Dmitri Mitropoulos uncarthed the Mahler First Symphony, and played it over the air. Igor Stravinsky conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikowski's Second Symphony last weekend, and next Sunday Bruno Walter expects to dust a few cobwebs from the Bruckner Eighth. All of which means that an increasingly mature music public is starting to demand its share of lesser-known, lesser-played works. Having been fed for the past decade on a staple diet of symphonic roast beef-the Beethoven and Brahms symphonies, Wagner excerpts, Von Weber overtures...
...which should make Bruno Walter's resurrection of the Bruckner Eighth an event of some interest Sunday afternoon. It should give people a fair chance to decide whether they like the symphony, unimpeded by the sneers of critics or the ravings of the Bruckner cultists; it should give them a chance to decide whether they want to incorporate into their American repertoire something that has been staple fare in Europe ever since it was composed...