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Hearing Victoria de los Angeles would be an entrancing experience if she sang merely a C-major scale; yet I cannot help feeling that last Wednesday night her vocal gifts were put to the service of a rather stodgy and unimaginative program. This is not the place for a disquisition on the ghastly musical tedium guaranteed by the usual subscription concert (can anyone living in Boston ever want to hear the Symphonie Fantastique again?), but why, Miss de los Angeles, when Schubert wrote over six hundred songs, must we have yet another performance of An die Musik, and why when...
...opening work, Mozart's Quartet in C-major, K.465 (1785), with its famous pessimistic introduction, contains some daring harmony which several of the composer's contemporaries felt obliged to "correct." But just as important is the extraordinarily limpid texture and intense purity that extend from first note to last...
...powers as a philosopher. "The moon," he muses, his travels over, "moved in her slow, inscrutable way across the heavens. . . . Nature has a great mystic purpose. But man founders. . . . Man, the one discordant note in the Symphony of Life . . . playing E-minor when the score calls for C-major." As an effort to prove that Tito is playing in a major key, The Silent People Speak is an atonal failure...
...concert to works from Mozart to Hindemith will be played tonight at the Longy School by members of the faculty. The long and exceptionally interesting program includes a Sonata for twelve hands by Hindemith, Intermezzi Ohue Ende in E-Flat major and C-major and the Dusseldorf Rhapsody in B-minor by Brahms, Schumann's A-minor Piccolo Sonata, and the Trombone Sonata in D-major by Mozart...
...program is as follows: "Harvard Hymn" J. K. Paine '69 The Glee Club and Orchestra "Symphony in C-Major" Mozart The Orchestra "Two Choruses," from "Orpheus" Gluck The Glee Club and Orchestra "Danse des Bouffons," from "The snow Maiden" Rimsky-Korsakov The Orchestra "Ecco Iam Noctes" G. W. Chadwick The Glee Club and Orchestra Prelude to "Oedipus Tyrannis" J. K. Paine '69 The Orchestra "Hallelujah Amen," from "Judas Maccabus" G. F. Handel The Glee Club and Orchestra