Word: concerted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the critical statement in Thursday morning's Music Box column concerning the concert of the Boston Symphony on Thursday is open to more comment than the one that, I have to make, I think it is important that I should make the following statement in order to justify Maestro Koussevitzky's choice of program, if justification is at all needed...
...Koussevitzky is beginning the Sanders Theatre series of the Boston Symphony tonight with a thoroughly orthodox program of works by Berlioz, Mozart, and Dvorak. Frankly, the program sounds like a Sunday evening Pops concert; certainly, it shows little of the customary interest for which Koussevitzky as a program builder, has become justly famous. Recalling with extreme satisfaction the magnificent reading of Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony which began last season's concerts, the Symphony in E minor, "From the New World" by Dvorak, is something of a letdown. We cannot believe that Koussevitzky was governed in his choice by the holiday...
...program, the combined string sections and horns will join in a performance of a divertimento in B flat by Mozart, K. No. 287. The piece was composed and presented in 1777, during Mozart's twenty-first year while he was in Munich on the first stages of his ninth concert tour of Europe. Mozart played the first violin in the performance, and prepared for himself a very brilliant part...
...concert is opening with the "Roman Carnival" Overture which Berlioz originally intended as an introduction to the second act of his unsuccessful opera, "Benvenuto Cellini...
...during his days as a mustachioed virtuoso on the string bass that he met Natalya Konstantinovna. While sawing the thick strings of his groaning instrument at a Moscow concert, he noticed a girl in the front row, gazing at him in maidenly admiration. Koussevitzky's heart jumped, he sawed away more sweetly than ever. After the concert he searched for his admirer, but she had gone. For weeks romantic Koussevitzky was in a lovesick daze. Months later, at another concert, he spied her again in the audience, made his pachydermatous instrument serenade her with mournful and passionate moans. Again...