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JOHANN STRAUSS WALTZES (Boston "Pops" Orchestra Concerts, Arthur Fiedler conducting; Victor: 10 sides). The Blue Danube is lacking, but Vienna's Waltz King is otherwise well represented...
People are strange little animals, as you have been told. At different times in different places they are different. Massed at a football up-and-down-the-field, they are one voice--either of solemn despair or of deafening triumph. Applauding Arthur Fiedler or Gypsy Rose Lee, they are like seals chapping their fins madly and nasally honking for more-fish...
With Arthur Fiedler conducting, the Pop Concert season will open tonight at 8:30 o'clock in Symphony Hall. The program is as follows: Cortege from "Mlada" Rimsky-Korsakov Overture to "Sakuntala" Goldmark Minuet Beizoni Russian Dances A. Tcherepnin Austrian Peasant Music Schonherr Festivo from "Scenes historiques" Sibelius Marche Slave Tchaikovsky "Tales from the Vienna Woods" Strauss "The Way You Look Tonight" Kern (Orchestral paraphrase by L. Caillet) The Ride of the Valkyries Wagner
...huge success. Capacity audiences composed of varying types of music-lovers, gourmets, and gourmands, are turning up each night; and the numerous charity an benefit evenings have proved highly satisfactory. Harvard Night went off very smoothly and is to be followed by a Radcliffe program on Wednesday. Mr. Fiedler, hard put to it to find music befitting the occasion, has nobly come forth with the new orchestral version of Professor Bill's Two Jazz Studies as well as a new work, "Pirates' Island", by Mabel Daniols...
Tonight is American night at the "Pops" and Arthur Fiedler, the conductor, has announced a program which outdoes itself in patriotism. Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever," Victor Herbert and Stephen Foster melodies, and various other numbers commonly grouped under the rather damning and microphone phrase "American Favorites" are all to be played; but the real point of interest of the whole evening centers on George Gershwin. Mr. Gershwin, in keeping with his fame, is to be the soloist in his "Rhapsody in Blue" as well as in his "Concerto for Pianoforte in F". What is more, he will conduct...