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...sultry spring day, few things can be more depressing than having to sit stiffly through the elephantine moods of Brahms or Bruckner; nothing can be more dismal than an evening of Hindemith, or a session with Prokolieff's latest cello sonats. The kind of music one dismisses as superficial in the winter becomes a treat to drowsy summer appetites, while the type of concert-going invited by cold weather becomes absolutely intolerable as the thermometer this eighty-ish. The problem of giving light music comfortably and informally is solved around Boston in a variety of ways...
With this scheme, moreover, Sibelius is able to pack climaxes of Wagnerian scope into a symphony a half an hour long. Bruckner had great conceptions, but his ideas meander baldly around and get lost in the involvements of the sonata form. Wagner, in order to work out his climaxes fully, had to extend them endlessly. But Sibelius's method is the essence of compactness, entailing none of the delays, enforced hesitations, and bridge-passage gaps of standard symphonic form, but allowing the composer to start on as low a level as he wishes, and move swiftly and cleanly...
...Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (Munich Philharmonic, Siegmund von Hausegger conducting; Victor: 14 sides). Written in the years 1891-94, shortly before Austrian Composer Anton Bruckner died, his 9th symphony remained unperformed for nine years, never became popular outside Austria. But present-day concertgoers are be ginning to find its long, leisurely spans of melody well worth cocking...
...conductor in his own right, conducts without a score, like Toscanini. Unlike Toscanini, he waggles his head both for cues and for umph. And when pinches come, he winds up like Dizzy Dean and lets them have it. Steinberg's box score: one hit, one error (playing Anton Bruckner's interminable Fourth Symphony...
...Pacelli. While the series was in progress, Walter's friend, Russian Pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch, was imprisoned on charges of espionage. Gabrilowitsch got a message to Walter, who spoke to Pacelli, who whispered in someone's ear. In not much more time than it takes to play a Bruckner symphony, Gabrilowitsch was free...