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...program is as follows: 1. Fantasia in C minor J. S. Bach The Bells W. Byrd Fuge aus dem Magniflcat J.J. Pachelbel "Harmonious Blacksmith" Variations Handel 2. Chromatische Fantasle und Fuge J. S. Bach 3. "The Battle between David and Goliath" J. Kuhnau 4. Italian Concerto J. S. Bach 5. Les Vendangeuses Couperin La Bandoline Couperin La Poule Rameau Le Rappel des Oiseaux Rameau 6. Drei Sonaten Domenico Scarlatti
...remainder of the program consists of "The Tragedy of Salome," by Florent Schmitt, noted modern French composer, and Metropoulos's own arrangement for orchestra of Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G minor for organ. The former was composed near the turn of the century and was intended to accompany the ballet of the same name. It is generally regarded as Schmitt's best known orchestral work and by incorporating the lurid scenario into the music gives both brilliance and dramatic atmosphere. Unlike many modern orchestrations, it does not attempt realistic methods (as, for example, did the Rivier overture...
...Thursday evening Dr. Koussevitsky will lead the Boston Symphony at Sanders Theater in Cambridge. The program is to embrace two Bach preludes arranged by Pick-Managiagalli; Edward Burlingame Hill's "Lilacs"; "Pohjola's Daughter" the colorful symphonic Fantasia by Jan Sibelius, and in conclusion the Second Symphony in D major of Johannes Brahms. Thursday evening will also offer a duet recital at Jordan Hall by Eleanor Steele, soprano and Hall Clovis, tenor. The program will include well known songs of Schubert and Schumann...
...evening's sensation was a set of Fantasias by British Henry Purcell whose death in 1695 deprived England of its greatest musical genius. The Purcell pieces played last week were lightly scored but they were so vital and direct, so tender, so craftily sure that the audience behaved as if it had just heard the percussive Bolero or driving Pacific 231. The final Fantasia, an ingenious weaving around a single note, had to be repeated. Then quiet Hans Lange was thanked time & again for reviving such long-neglected music...
SalutationConverse (Composed for the Pops--First Per.) "An Evening with Bilse," Humorous Potpourri Ernst Scherz Pizzicato Polka Strauss *Overture, "William Tell" Rossini *Overture to "Mignon" Thomas (Guest cond.--Timothee Adamowski) "Sylvan Suite," Second Movement Strube (Guest conductor--Gustav Strube) *"Samson and Delilah," Fantasia Saint-Saens (Guest conductor--Clement Lenom) "Five Decades" (Hans Wiener Dancers with Orchestra) First Decade, 1885-1895, The immortal Strauss waltzes sweep around the world. *Waltzes from "Thousand and One Nights" Johann Strauss Second Decade, 1895-1905. Ragtime makes its bid for popularity Cakewalk, "At a Georgia Camp Meeting" Lee Terny Third Decade, 1905-1915. Importation...