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...compositions were in the line of tone painting, he deviated from his usual course in making this particular Concerto unrelated to any program material. Soon after he had completed this, he came to Boston, where he lived for many years. The final number on the program is the Cesar Franck Symphony in D minor which was played at the Boston concerts a few weeks...
...Cesar Franck's great Symphony in D minor is to be performed at this week's Symphony concerts in Boston. Franck was born in Belgium in 1822, but spent most of his life in Paris, where he was for many years the organist in the church of Sainte-Clotilde. Devoutly sincere and excessively modest, he did not secure real fame until after his death in 1890, when, through the efforts of his pupils, who include the greatest of modern French composers, his works were really brought before the public. Franck represents a break from the Wagnerian romanticism and a return...
...were the newsworthy old faces removed from, or new faces added to, the House. Most picturesque Congressman-reject was a woman, California's chunky, wisecracking old Florence Kahn, beaten after six terms by San Francisco's County Supervisor Franck Havenner on a straight Re-elect Roosevelt platform. In New York, Harlem's fiery little progressive Republican Vito Marcantonio was defeated by a Tammanyman. Making up for the loss of Arizona's Isabella Greenway, retired, Oregon elected another of Eleanor Roosevelt's bridesmaids, Nanny Wood Honeyman, to replace stalwart Republican William Ekwall. In North Dakota, freckled...
That evening in Jordan Hall, the Russian Symphonic Choir is to present a program composed entirely of Russian music. On Thursday evening in Sanders Theatre, the WPA group is to repeat Cesar Franck's choral work, 'The Beatitudes, which they gave last week...
...second Menuhin prodigy has a talent that could take her far as a solo performer. Like Yehudi she plays with complete concentration, an obvious respect for the music at hand. Together the pair achieved a perfect balance of tone, penetrated the varying moods in sonatas by Brahms, Enesco, Franck, so impressed Arturo Toscanini that he sent word backstage asking for some Mozart as an encore...