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Salt Lake City Choir (Sun. 11:30 a.m., CBS). Selections by Mendelssohn, Elgar...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Twentieth Century composers; including Ravel's Mother Goose and Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for strings; Wilfred Pelletier, guest conductor...
...Sargent will guest-conduct the NBC Symphony Orchestra for four Sunday concerts. His purpose: to introduce contemporary British music to Americans, just as he has introduced it to Australians, New Zealanders, Swedes, Palestinian Jews and British war workers. Pleased to find U.S. familiarity with the works of Sir Edward Elgar (Pomp and Circumstance), he hopes to whet a U.S. appetite for Vaughan Williams, Gustav Hoist, William Walton and John Ireland...
After listening to the Philharmonic, elegant Mr. Thomson headed his review Age Without Honor. He shrugged at its Beethoven, compared its Elgar with "that massively frivolous patchwork in pastel shades of which one sees such quantities in any intellectual British suburban dwelling." Calling Sibelius "vulgar, self-indulgent and provincial," he stated that he had never met a Sibelius-lover among "educated professional musicians." In Critic Thomson's sum: "The music . . . was soggy, the playing dull and brutal. As a friend remarked who had never been to one of these concerts before, 'I understand now why the Philharmonic...
...Poem Smetans *"To A Wild Rose" MacDowell *Walls Seene from "Faust" Gouned *Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner *Scherso from "A Mid Summer Night's Dream" Mandelssohn *Overture to "Poet and Peasant" Suppe *By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Waltz *Song of the Volga Bargemon Arranged by Gazounov *Pomp and Circumstance Elgar...