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...runs the Peninsula Festival, the Cincinnati Symphony's energetic Conductor Thor Johnson, 44, tries to present "musical experiences that are not included in wintertime concerts anywhere in the world." Audiences heard the 42-man orchestra wheel through freshly performed American music, including the wisecracking, four-movement Divertimento Burlesca by Los Angeles' Benjamin Lees, 32, and the sprightly Three Songs for Bass and Orchestra by Chicago's late Edward Collins. As a counterpoint to such commissioned modern works, Conductor Johnson offered some elegant, rarely performed echoes of the 18th century; the Sinfonia Concertante in E-Flat, by Johann...
Britten: Introduction & Rondo alla Burlesca and Mazurka Elegiaca (Clifford Curzon and Benjamin Britten, pianists; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 4 sides); Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings (Boyd Neel String Orchestra, Benjamin Britten conducting; 6 sides). The first recordings of Britain's wonder-boy composer to reach the U.S. His two-piano music is written in a pure, archaic style reminiscent of Britain's 17th Century great, Henry Purcell, though Britten adds harmonic twists of his own. The Serenade, done in a more contemporary vein, consists of poems by Blake, Keats, Tennyson and others, set to music that is artful...
...following program will be conducted by M. Agide Jacchia at the Pops concert tonight, held at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall: Coronation March Svendson Overture to "Egmont" Beethoven "Sometime" Fiorito-Jacchia Fantasia, "Mefistofele" Boito Capriccio--Burlesca Scarlatti (Orchestrated by Agide Jacchia) Procession to the Cathedral, Act II "Lohengrin" Wagner Spanish Dance, "Panaderos" Glazounov Finale, Fourth Symphony Tchaikovsky Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt Indian Summer, An American Idyll Herbert Waltz, "Wine, Woman and Song" Strauss
...program this evening is announced as follows: Novelette in F-sharp minor Schumann Scherzo in A Major Beethoven Rhapsody in B minor Brahma Burlesca Scarlatti Le Carillon de Cynthere Couperin The Little Windmills Couperin Descriptions Automatiques Satie Preludes in A minor and B flat Bach Mazurka in C sharp minor Chopin Prelude Scriabine Prelude in C major Prokofieff March Prokofieff Impromptu in F minor Schubert
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