Word: freisch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Last week, with all his rigid standards, he had good reason to be pleased. Weber's Freischütz overture seemed to have been freshly recreated. An oldtime Cherubini symphony had such subtle grace and elegance that it was accepted as important. Most surprising was the Saint-Saens Danse Macabre which sounded extraordinarily vital, not a measure of it hackneyed or cheaply melodramatic. After the Rhine Journey from Wagner's Götterdammerung, the audience would have stayed long to cheer. But Toscanini was through. He bowed briefly, tugged at the concert master's sleeve...