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...Carnegie Hall a great audience rose to its feet as a slender little man with a stick under his arm made his way as swiftly and inconspicuously as possible to the conductor's stand. For him the business of the afternoon was Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, the Franck D Minor. But for once he had to pause until the audience had shown its reverence for Arturo Toscanini...
...best recordings in recent months is that of Cesar Franck's "Variations Symphoniques", recorded by Walter Gieseking and the London Philharmonic Orchestra (Columbia). The full sonority and subtlety of the piano have been reproduced with amazing fidelity. The playing of Gieseking is, needless to say, of the highest order, to state it conventionally. The composition itself is one of the most intriguing of its kind. It is really a set of variations for piano and orchestra in a sort of symphonic union, a large-scale and serious continuation of the variation form of Haydn and Beethoven: for example, the last...
...Alphonse Onnou, Laurent Halleux, Germain Prevost and Robert Maas. They will be assisted by Miss Olga Averino, soprano. The programs are as follows: Monday Quartet F major Op. 135 Beethoven Quartet No. 5, D minor Chadwick Quartet C minor, Op. 51 No. 1 Brahms Wednesday Quartet D major Franck Quartet Carpenter Quartet G minor Op. 10 Debussy Friday Quartet No 2 F sharp minor Schonberg Three Variations on a Theme C minor Harris Quartet No. 3, Op. 22 Hindemith
...FRANCK...
...program which will be played on the new $50,000 Isham organ follows: Prelude (Symphony 1)--Vierne (Mr. Phelps): On Mighty Pens (Creation)--Haydn (Miss Morton), Chorale in A "Minor--Franck (Mr. Phelps); Hear Ye Israel (Elijah)--Mendelssohn (Miss Morton) Choral Improvisation--Karg-Elect, and Sertie--Reports (Mr. Phelps...