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...Hall opening in October, the Philharmonic will play two weeks of four 45-minute shows a day in Manhattan's huge (6,000 seats) Roxy Theater. The first week's program, on a bill which includes Tyrone Power in The Black Rose: Wagner, Prokofiev, Puccini, Mendelssohn, De Falla...
...battery of 88 felt-padded mechanical fingers fitted over the keys, playing the music back with all the expression and personality of the original performer. There was Debussy playing some of his Preludes and his Children's Corner Suite; Saint-Saëns, Faure, Grieg, Scriabin, Falla, Granados, Richard Strauss and Mahler performing their own compositions on the piano. There were kings of the keyboard-DePachmann, Leschetizky, Busoni, D'Albert and famed Conductor-Pianist Arthur Nikisch -playing Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, and their own works...
...glowing, smoothly powered performance of the Mozart Symphony No. 40. He showed off the colors of his orchestra's palette with a new razzle-dazzle piece called Magic Manhattan by his Paris friend Manuel Rosenthal (now conductor of the Seattle Symphony), finished with the spirited dances from Falla's Three-Cornered Hat. Even the Manhattan critics conceded that the sensitivity and sonority of St. Louis' band measured up mighty close with the East's big three: the Boston, the Philadelphia and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony...
Muck's successor, Pierre Monteux (now the San Francisco Symphony's conductor) let it sing modern music-Stravinsky, Falla, Honegger, Milhaud. Then, in 1924, began the 25-year reign of Serge Koussevitzky, onetime bass-viol virtuoso and one of the great conductors of his time. Under his stern but benevolent rule, the Boston had come to a peak of polished perfection, and U.S. composers, subsidized and encouraged with commissions, had found a new home...
...Falla: Suite Populaire Espagnole (Isaac Stern, violin; Alexander Zakin, piano; Columbia, 3 sides). The six parts of this suite were originally written for voice and piano; in this transcription, Violinist Stern catches every flicker of flame arid fillip of flavor. Falla at his Spanish best. Recording: excellent...