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Sunday brings the last of the Pops Sunday programs. Tchaikovsky will be featured. The Saturday program is of the usual sort, with classic and popular music in a balanced nation. The program for Saturday follows: March, "El Capitan" Sousa Overture to, "Orpheus" Offenbach Largo from "Xerxes" Handel (Solo Violin, Harp, Organ and Strings) Fantasia, "Il Trovatore" Verdi Marche Slave Tchaikovsky Legend Holy Prelude in D-flat Glazonnov-Jacchia Overture to "Rienzi" Wagner Polovtsian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin Berceuse from "Jocelyn" Godard (Solo 'Cello--Jacobus Langendoen) Waltz, "Espana" Waldteufel
...Symphony Players, led by Agide Jacchia, conductor, will present the following program at tonight's pop concert in Symphony Hall: Overture to "The Magic Flute" Mozart Waltz, "Dornroeschen" (Briar Rose) Tchaikovsky Carry Mc Back to Old Virginny Bland Jacchia Fantasia, "L'Oracolo" Leoni Rhapsody, "Espana" Chabrier Harp Solo Prelude Kovarovie (Alfred Holy) Polish Dance Scharwenka Hymn to the Sun from "Iris" Mascagni Night Dawn Sunrise Prelude to "The of Nu-rembers" Wagner Still Blon March "Lerraire" Ganne
...Mexico to Manhattan not long ago came Julian Carrillo, composer, onetime director of Mexico's national conservatory. Composer Carrillo has a system all his own. He has substituted numbers for notes, written music in quarter, eighth and 16th tones, and perfected instruments to play them-an "arpacitera" or harp zither, having 97 tones within the octave in subdivisions of 16ths; a French horn, made in Manhattan, that plays 16ths; an "octavina" that plays eighths; a guitar that plays quarters; and an ordinary cello and violin on which were played quarters and eighths. Last week the League of Composers gave...
...fascinated and men were enraptured; I know Timotheus, with magic strain, led rocks, trees and beasts to follow him; I know that the notes of Orpheus entranced them and enthralled the underworld and caused the gods to gaze thereon with envy, and I know that David drew from his harp a chord which swept the gloom from the brow of Saul and flooded Israel's palaces with music and laughter." (Applause...
...grand piano is a commonplace, and it was curious how the great assembly in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, stared at one last week as if the sleek, black, three-legged harp were some jungle animal. Some stared because they knew the secret of that sable instrument; others because their neighbors were staring. The latter had not read their programs...