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...bass clarinet, Drs. Swann and Danforth built an electrical "oscillion" so ingenious that it can be made to sound like either, so simple that a child can master it. Last week at a Swarthmore concert the oscillion made its world debut, playing the long clarinet passages in Cesar Franck's D Minor Symphony without a mishap. Listeners thought the oscillion lacked color, was a little twangier in tone, otherwise indistinguishable from the woodwind it replaced...
...Rome, Il Duce instantly gave orders for Surgeon-Professor Cesar Antonucci to take off from Rome with his assistant, Dr. Giovanni Barbera. Day later they alighted at Addis Ababa, amputated the shattered leg of Air General Liotta. By this time Viceroy Graziani had mobilized 30,000 troops on a war basis, issued a communique: "The outrage represents an episode of common delinquency." According to Addis newsfolk the Ethiopian grenade-throwers set up a shout of "Ras Desta is coming!" but in fact this onetime ras (chief) of Haile Selassie was hundreds of miles away making good his escape into British...
...compositions were in the line of tone painting, he deviated from his usual course in making this particular Concerto unrelated to any program material. Soon after he had completed this, he came to Boston, where he lived for many years. The final number on the program is the Cesar Franck Symphony in D minor which was played at the Boston concerts a few weeks...
...Cesar Franck's great Symphony in D minor is to be performed at this week's Symphony concerts in Boston. Franck was born in Belgium in 1822, but spent most of his life in Paris, where he was for many years the organist in the church of Sainte-Clotilde. Devoutly sincere and excessively modest, he did not secure real fame until after his death in 1890, when, through the efforts of his pupils, who include the greatest of modern French composers, his works were really brought before the public. Franck represents a break from the Wagnerian romanticism and a return...
That evening in Jordan Hall, the Russian Symphonic Choir is to present a program composed entirely of Russian music. On Thursday evening in Sanders Theatre, the WPA group is to repeat Cesar Franck's choral work, 'The Beatitudes, which they gave last week...