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During his first song, Handel's Let Me Weep, Lord!, De Luca wept. So did most of his audience, for the great baritone voice had lost none of its splendor; if anything, it was even more musical...
Then he led on stage 27-year-old Negro Contralto Carol Brice, a tall girl dressed in a simple black dress. She waited quietly while Koussevitzky scampered out front to listen. Then she sang Handel's My Father and Where Shall I Fly?; two lieder and a rhythmic Hall Johnson spiritual. Her singing brought the house down. After the concert, Koussevitzky led her to the foyer, where the ladies of the audience were drinking tea, nibbling tiny sandwiches and acclaiming her. Said Koussevitzky, who used to be a cellist: "Always I try to make the cello play like...
...probably for these reasons that Koussevitzky rarely plays classical music, and never pre-classical. Little Haydn, no Handel, and no Schubert is heard in Boston. Koussevitzky's selections among Romantic composers are generally restricted to that Virgil Thomson calls "the symphonists that descend from Brahms'--Tchaikovsky, Sibelius...
...Brother Adolf Busch, violinist (citizen of Switzerland), led his Little Symphony through four of Handel's Concerti Grossi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In his orchestra: wife Frieda (clarinet), daughter Irene (violin), brother Hermann, onetime first cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic (cello...
Conducer Thompson Stone added force and precision to a fervent chorus that was obviously enjoying itself immensely. Its exuberance brought out the utmost from Handel's skillful use of such words as "Surely," "Wonderful," or "Hallelujah." The orchestral accompaniment, revised first by Mozart and later by Robert Franz, was capably played by 55 members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...