Word: franck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from a tarantella to a sabre dance. But by the time he had driven Berlioz' old warhorse around the course, whipping it for all it was worth, the audience couldn't get to its feet fast enough. The passion and power he found in César Franck's over-explored symphony won him another wild ovation before intermission. And by the time his program was over, Victor de Sabata had Pittsburgh in his pocket. After the pounding, accelerating bombardment of Bolero, there was a full minute of silence, as the audience pulled itself together. Then came...
...certainly wasn't De Sabata's first program that lured the critics. There was only one new work, a viciously dissonant and twisting symphonic poem, Marinaresca e Baccanale, by a little known Italian contemporary named Giorgio Federico Ghedini. The others-Berlioz' blood & thunder Roman Carnival Overture, Franck's D Minor Symphony and Ravel's Bolero-were the kind of overly familiar music that delights most audiences and drugs most critics...
...Born invited him to Göttingen, where he earned his Ph.D. (at 23) three weeks after enrolling. Oppenheimer's Ph.D. thesis was a brilliant paper on quantum mechanics: Zur Quantentheorie kontinuierlicher Spektren. After the oral exam, a colleague asked Physicist James Franck (now at the University of Chicago) how it had gone with Oppenheimer. Replied...
...Franck: "I got out of there just in time. He was beginning to ask me questions...
Last week, in another WQXR sampling of its 4,600 listener "advisory committee," the favorite symphonies were: Beethoven No. 5, Beethoven No. 9, Brahms No. 1, Tchaikovsky No. 6, Beethoven No. 3, Franck D Minor, Beethoven No. 6, Beethoven No. 7, Brahms No. 4 and Tchaikovsky...