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...performance of Scriabin's piano concerto (Gitta Gradova, soloist); a fantasy by Darius Milhaud for piano and orchestra; Szymanowski's Third Symphony; J. C. Bach's Sinfonia; Bloch's Israel, Honegger's Tempest overture; Pfitzner's three preludes from Palestrina and a De Falla composition for piano and orchestra...
...will give 20 Sunday afternoon concerts, beginning on Oct. 31, 12 Thursday afternoon and 12 Friday evening concerts, 6 Saturday afternoon concerts for young people and 5 Saturday morning concerts for children. Under Dr. Damrosch six new works by six composers of six different countries will be played: De Falla's marionette opera, El Retablo de Maese Pedro, Sibelius' Tapiola, Casella's Scarlatina, Honegger's Phaedre, Ernst Hallfter's Spanish Suite, a symphony by Austin George Antheil, Milhaud's Ballad for Piano and Orchestra. Soloists will be Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Efrem Zimbalist, Alfred Cortot...
...Spanish Government gets 30% of the gross receipts; therefore, when the expenses are paid the members' reward is very meager. I met some of the best known Spanish musicians, including De Falla, who lives at Granada, within sight of the Moorish palaces and Alloniz. An interesting young school of composers is to be found in Spain...
...this, two cups of that, a tablespoon of something else, a pinch of salt?and a chef has mixed a cake. A Beethoven symphony or perhaps a Haydn, a bit of de Falla or maybe Respighi and a portion of Wagner?and a symphonic conductor has made up his program. And just as one chef is famed for his pastry, the next one for his meats, so is it natural for one conductor to excel in one style of music, be it classic, romantic or modern...
Charles Naegele and Mr. Koussevitzki will conclude the day in Sanders at 8 o'clock. For Beethoven is on the program in F major, and Grieg, and Pierne and De Falla. It is a program worthy of them, and between the numbers. I shall sit and wonder how they light the as jets on the chandeller...