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...attributing of "sexiness" to Gounod, that master of banality in music, shows a lack of discernment somewhere. Cesar Franck, a devout Catholic, wrote music whose sensuality is unsurpassed in the late romantic era. His models were Liszt and Wagner, both of whom did their level best to transfer their sexual emotions to music. But who knows that the Bach fugues that some consider so dry and pedantic at this time were not the height of voluptuousness when they were created? And Mozart, who so often is accused of superficiality, was in a sense the Wagner of his time, only...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Symphonic Piece from Franck's Redemption; Debussy's La Mer; excerpts from Dukas' opera Ariane et Barbe-Bleue. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...
...Halfback George Franck also got sent to the hospital-banged-up shoulder...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Richard Strauss's Death and Transfiguration, Franck's Symphonic Piece from Redemption. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Bizet's Symphony, and Franck's Symphony in D Minor. Conductor: Artur Rodzinski...