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Most of the criticism is remarkably objective. Sometimes he sacrifices objectivity for color ("Chausson . . . is furniture of chromium and pigskin"), sometimes for a personal prejudice ("Roy Harris' concerto has all the virtues of Brahms and none of the faults"). But most of his evaluations are well-reasoned, well-illustrated, and well-founded, whether they are on a Toscanini concert or a ragtime revival...
...free symphony concerts by the Old Timers. First, to demonstrate that new music is not beyond oldsters, they sent Virgil Thomson's dissonant Seine at Night flowing down the corridors -and the brasses got their chance to show they still had both wind and beauty of tone. In Chausson's Poème, with Violinist Ruggiero Ricci as guest soloist, the strings got to prove that they improve with age, like a fine old Stradivarius. By the time they had wound up the concert with a powerful performance of Richard Strauss's Death and Transfiguration, with everybody...
...concentrated on interviews. In Paris he sat down with Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, Premier Paul Ramadier, President Vincent Auriol, Communist Labor Boss Benoit Frachon, and a raft of other politicians and industrialists. In his off-hours he hustled through the Renault and Chausson factories (autos and trucks) and a textile plant; he talked with businessmen, workers, storekeepers. He had the usual trouble with the French telephone system...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Songs by Massenet, Chausson, Noel Coward. Soloist: Maggie Teyte...
...Ernest Chausson: Symphony in B Flat Major (Chicago Symphony, Frederick Stock conducting; Victor; 8 sides). Chausson's symphony, written in 1890 before the composer's death (at 44) in a bicycle accident, combines somewhat Wagnerian romantic fervor with fine Parisian workmanship. Performance: excellent. Recording: good...