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...second) among all composers, past and present. This autumn Manhattan's Radio City MusicHall Conductor Erno Rapee unhesitatingly undertook to broadcast Sibelius' entire set of seven symphonies. The Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra play them far oftener than the once-popular symphonies of Tchaikovsky and Cesar Franck. The great bald Finn has come into...
...Beethoven began studying music, knew as much as his teacher-father by the time he was 9. Other first appearances: Heifetz and Elman at 5, Mozart and Josef Hofmann at 6, Fritz Kreisler at 7, Chopin at 8, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Rubinstein, Harold Bauer at 9, Cesar Franck and Schumann...
...they got under way last week, conductors throughout the U. S. had their eyes on the National Orchestral Association. As competently as could be expected from a group of young musicians in which the turnover is fast and rehearsals are few, they played the Franck Symphony, and, with Pianist Muriel Kerr, the fourth Beethoven Concerto. More eyes will be turned on them next month when they play the world premiere of Jacob Weinberg's Gettysburg Address, a symphonic ode to the text of Abraham Lincoln's immortal speech...
...Episcopal service, had them attend his church in a body every Sunday during their training period. Last week for the first time St. James's congregation heard its protégés sing so ably that Choirmaster Alexander McCurdy announced plans for a difficult César Franck mass next Ascension Sunday...
...works the musicians hope to read include: Cesar Franck's D-Minor Symphony, Haydn's Surprise Symphony, Brahm's Second Symphony, Mozart's Overture to The Magic Flute and his Serenade in D, a Frescobaldi Fugue in G-Minor arranged by Mr. Holmes, and Bach's prelude and Fugue in B Flat Minor from the Well-Tempered Clavichord, arranged by R. U. Jameson '30, a former Pierian Manager...