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...some new musicians to build the orchestra up to a big-sounding 94 pieces. They bowed and blew their way through Howard Hanson's Romantic Symphony No. 2, then wound things up with resounding performances of Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor and Sibelius' Finlandia. As usual, they mingled with the audience afterward, but this time they had something special to talk about. With the proceeds from their concert, 70 of them would climb aboard a Stratocruiser in two weeks, take off, kit & caboodle, for a two-month tour of Scandinavia...
...National Arts Foundation was making good on its promise to keep Finnish Composer Jean Sibelius (Finlandia, Valse Triste) in stogies for the rest of his life. Anticipating his 84th birthday Dec 8, the foundation started air-expressing 84 boxes of cigars to his forest cottage near Helsinki...
...their hands to and fro, or humming partly under their breath. Fielder left classic decorum to the academicians of music, and played with liveliness and humor that did justice to the intention of almost every one of these composers of light concert music. Only the sturdy grandeur of Sibelius' "Finlandia" suffered from the rendition...
...orchestra excelled when they played Richard Strauss' waltzes from "Der Rosenkavalier," and the suite from "Carmen." These two stand-bys put the audience into just the mood into which they wanted to be put, and the two Khatchourian dances, at once delicate and vigorous, led to "Finlandia," which rounded out the first half of the program. After the intermission, Benjamin Britten's variations on Rossini provided a brilliant modern interpretation of this airy, yet worldly, composer...
Boston Symphony (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). Berlioz' Rákóczy March, Beethoven's Egmont Overture, selections from Bizet's Carmen, waltzes from Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, and Khachaturyan's Gayane, Sibelius' Finlandia. Conductor: Arthur Fiedler...