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...Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra the other evening gave a program of all Shakespeare, that is to say of orchestral pieces written to illustrate some Shakesperian theme. This interesting selection of music, ably conducted by Fritz Reiner, consisted of Korngold's Much Ado About Nothing, Wechsler's overture As You Like It, Berlioz' Queen Mab, Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream. This piquantly balanced the well known against the little known...
...complete copy of Mr. Saslawsky's program follows: Ah. Mio Cor Handel Come and Trip it Handel The Plague of Love Dr. Arne So Sweete is Shee, Old English, arr. by William Fisher The Praise of Islay, Old Scotch, arr. by Fritz Kreisler Der Wanderer Schubert Seven Ditchterliebe Schumann Die Mainachi Brahms La Caravan Chausson Claire de Lune Faure Villanelle dos petits canards Chabrier Wiegenlied Moussorgsky Hopak Moussorgsky Poem of Musse Rachmaninoff The Steppe Gretchaninoff...
...Metropolitan revival is important in the musical season, but no revival could be less important than this because no one has ever been enthusiastic about L'Amico Fritz. It is harmlessly sentimental - a country maid throws violets (violet song) and cherries (cherry song) at an Alsatian landowner, and the landowner joins in a final duet: "lo t'amo, t'amo, o dolce mio tesor...
...Fritz Kreisler, at ten, won a gold medal at the Vienna Conservatory; at twelve, took the Paris Prix de Rome...
...Fritz Kreisler, violinist: "In Berlin I convalesced after the loss of a great toe, accidentally injured while I trained Austrian troops...