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Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 (the Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell conducting; Columbia, 8 sides). Robert Schumann called the Fourth "a slender Greek maiden between two Norse giants" (the Eroica and the Fifth). In his Columbia debut with the Cleveland Orchestra, Conductor Szell has sculptured her skillfully and gracefully. Performance: excellent...
Boston Symphony (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Serge Koussevitzky conducts Beethoven's Coriolanus Overture and Eroica Symphony...
Fancy Front. Goldschmidt went to hear grey, 61-year-old Paul Paray of the Paris Concerts Colonne direct Beethoven's Eroica at Santiago's ancient Teatro Municipal. As usual, he did not like it. "It wasn't Beethoven," he wrote. "It was a fancy front with nothing behind...
Boston Symphony Orchestra (Tues. 8:3O p.m., ABC). Beethoven's Eroica symphony. Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky...
...would do well to sit all the way through "The Life of Mozart." Somewhere near the close the great Wolfgang is visited by a new pupil who sits at the piano to play a work of his own. The wild-eyed student starts into the opening phrases of the Eroica Symphony, and as the horns and strings come in from the background Mozart whispers hoarsely, "You cannot be my pupil, Laudwig; you have already learned all there is to know...