Word: haydn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tire even the most ardent admirer of musical delicacy and impressionism. To date there has not been a single note of Bach or Handel heard in Symphony Hall. Although there seemed to be time enough for two by Shostakovitch and one by Miaskovsky, there was not a single Haydn, and but one Mozart symphony performed...
...godly Philistine," and had a lot more talent as a composer than subsequent history has given him credit for. His newly finished Requiem, in fact, was performed in Prague at Mozart's death in 1791. His Sinfonia in G, being played tonight, sounds like good early Mozart or late Haydn...
While the famed Budapest Quartet played compositions by Schumann and Haydn, a packed house listened with hushed attention, savored each trill of the viola, each violinistic vibration. Many of the audience were well-known Manhattan musicians who had dropped in for a quiet taste of musicians' music. Many others were concert-hardened music lovers whom only the caviar of two violins, a viola and a cello could drag from their homes on a pleasant afternoon. But nearly all of them were regular patrons to whom the New Friends' concerts are a weekly ritual...
...last six years the New Friends have played their devotees whole marathons of chamber music: virtually the entire output of Beethoven, Haydn, Schumann, Brahms, Mozart. They have never deigned to relieve the high-brow austerity of their concerts by anything so low-brow as a violin concerto or an opera aria...
...Orchestra's early Harvard concerts weren't too smoothly run off, either. Someone once unaccountable began to ring the Memorial Hall chimes in the midst of a Haydn Symphony and the sirens and accompanying sounds of the arrival and departure of nearby fire-trucks were a continual menace. The fire department has since agreed to be silent during Sanders concerts, but there are rumours that guards are still posted around neighboring chimes. And old-timers probably shudder even now whenever a cymbal is banged...