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Before Cluny knows it, she is raising hob with the punctilio of three levels of snobbery-the aristocratic, the backstairs (Sara Allgood et al.) and, deadliest of all, the lower middle class. A tyrannical druggist (Richard Haydn) woos her with selections on the parlor organ; his phlegm-racked, fearsome little mother (Una O'Connor) believes her unworthy. Cluny's guardian angel throughout her tribulations is a prewar anti-Nazi refugee (Charles Boyer), who finds it equally impossible to persuade liberal English friends that he won't be assassinated at any moment, and to persuade tories that England...
...Haydn 88th suffered from irregular placement and use of stringed instruments. If the string section of the orchestra were cut in half, so as to bring it closer to Haydn's original instrumentation, the beautiful wood-wind figurations might be heard, and the temptation to blasting fortissimi would be eliminated. Koussevitzky's Haydn is pleasant, but it could be memorable...
When the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra tunes up at Agassiz tomorrow night at 8:15 o'clock, it will be continuing at tradition which began while Josef Haydn was still alive and Franz Schubert, a child of II, was pecking out his earliest sonatas. The Pierian Sodality of 1808, which forms the core of the orchestra, antedates the New York Philharmonic by some 26 years...
...recuperated from pneumonia. Szigeti remembers him as a slight, frail man with the burning blue eyes of a zealot, whose hair had turned white at 22. They later played in concerts together all over Europe. Said Szigeti: "He was an anachronism . . . who should have lived in the times of Haydn and Beethoven. He couldn't fit into big business...
Bizet: Symphony in C Major (Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 7 sides). The composer of Carmen was 17 when he wrote his only symphony, and obviously a student of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Rossini, all of whom have their innings in the score. Performance: fair...