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...important beginnings in musical history are often easy to identify: the birth of the romantic symphony with Beethoven's Eroica, for example, or the founding of German Romantic opera in Weber's Der Freischütz, or the full flowering of the twelve-tone system with Schoenberg's Op. 25 Piano Suite. Endings, however, are more elusive. When precisely did the Baroque conclude? Did the symphony die with Brahms or Mahler, or is it still a vital form? These are moot questions...
...less than half full. But at the end of the performance, most of the audience stood up to cheer. Two nights later, 6,000 Londoners watched and listened while Gianella guided the orchestra with professional aplomb. Gianella started badly, muffing the opening bars of the overture to Der Freischütz, but soon found herself. Then came Haydn's Symphony No. 73-with Gianella and the L.P.O. outdoing themselves-and the Tannhäuser overture. By this time, the Albert Hall audience was applauding wildly-though whether from seeing a conductor who unabashedly scratched her bottom during the Haydn...
Sunday Evening Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., ABC). The Detroit Symphony, with Pianist Henrietta Schumann: Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1; Ganne's Marche Lorraine', Massenet's Scènes Alsaciennes: Weber's Overture to Der Freischütz. Conductor: Valter Poole...
Short Orchestral Work: Weber's Der Freischütz overture, by Toscanini and the NBC Symphony (Victor...
...York Philharmonic-Symphony (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS) opens its ninth radio season with Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz Overture, Jean Sibelius' The Swan of Tuonela, The Return of Lemmin-käinen, Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky's suite from The Fire Bird, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Adagio and Fugue for Strings, Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting...