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...series of concerts at the Germanic Museum continues next Monday evening with a concert of harp and organ music, played by the eminent French harpist, Marcel Grandjany, E. Power Biggs at the organ, and the Fiedler Sinfonietta conducted by Arthur Fiedler. The program is an extraordinarily interesting one, including a Handel harp concerto, a new Poulenc organ concerto, and some harp and organ music by Grandjany himself...
Ravel: Introduction and Allegro (Laura Newell, harpist, John Wummer, flautist, Ralph McLane, clarinetist, the Stuyvesant String Quartet; Columbia: three sides). Elegant French fancy work, in its best needling to date. The harp and strings have been working the other side of the street, as the New Friends of Rhythm...
Oswald, miming for all she was worth, hoarsely sang about stars in the sky, a hungry man, a family with 15 children, a man hearing sounds in the night, a child escaping from a reformatory. In one number she was accompanied by a harpist as curvesome as the treble clef: beauteous Daphne, wife of socialite Editor Harry Adsit Bull of Town & Country...
...from ten to twelve cellists, from eight to twelve contrabassists., It must have one piccolo player, two flutists, two oboists, an English-horn player, two clarinetists, a bass clarinetist, two bassoonists, a contrabassoonist, four or five horn players, three trumpeters, three trombonists, a tuba player, a kettledrummer, and a harpist. Each of these musical specialists is indispensable to the proper functioning of the mechanism. A symphony orchestra without a kettledrummer, for instance, is about as helpless as a car without a carburetor...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra is on tour this week, but some of its members, led by its distinguished harpist, Bernard Zighera, are to give a most interesting chamber music concert in Jordan Hall on Tuesday evening. The program opens with a Sinfonie for Grand Orchestra (two violins, viola, bass, two oboes, two horns, two trumpets and tympani) written by the late eighteenth century Rhenish composer, Henri Joseph Riegel. Following this, there is to be a work by Daniel-Lesur, a member of the modern "La Jeune France" group, which is entitled "Five Interludes for Four Horns." The remainder of the program...