Word: eroica
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joseph Smith, the gardener, on his one big day. Having won second prize (a disappointment) at the Flower Show, and dined later (a rare treat) with an eminent horticulturist; having afterward heard, for the first time in his life, great music, in the form of Beethoven's Eroica symphony, he returns very tired, belatedly, to the almost deserted castle of Wotton Vanborough. There still further surprises await him. A search for a suspected rat-nest leads him into a series of secret passageways. He emerges from these to confront an antique statue, glitteringly gilded; the statue falls, bursts open...
...last-named composer in represented by his famous Third or "Eroica" Symphony which was played last weekend in Boston during the Friday and Saturday series. In contrast to this great work is a recent orchestral suite by the Russian musician, Sergo Prokefloff, who is well known for both his composing and pianoforte abilities. This particular suite is an arrangement of his incidental music to the Soviet film, "Lieutenant Kije," and is grouped into five movements of a light and satirical mood. The film was produced in the U. S. S. R. in 1933 and the music is being heard...
Symphony Hall in Boston opens its doors tomorrow afternoon to the start of another concert season by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The program, which is to be repeated the following night, consists of two well known works: the "Eroica" or Third Symphony of Beethoven, and the Second Symphony of the Finnish composer Jan Sibelius...
...opening of a musical year. Originally dedicated to Napoleon the Consul, it lost that inscription when the composer thought that the ambitious Corsican had presumed too much when he titled himself Napoleon the Emperor. Its "heroic" qualities have survived both in the magnificent music and in the fitting name "Eroica," and the performances under Koussevitzky should more than do justice to the great score...
...murder, sob sisters and sport writers at work, a whole newspaper going to press. Critics found Composer Grofe's latest work exciting but unmusical, liked best Mr. Whiteman doing good reliable Gershwin. Two nights later the Dell season officially opened, with the audience cheering Beethoven's Eroica as done by swart, chunky Conductor-Pianist Jose Iturbi...