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...Haydn: Symphony No. 98 in B Flat (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 7 sides). A great conductor recording first-rate music (which he has not always done recently). The result is a dazzling torrent of melody. Performance: excellent...
...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...
Schoolboy Michael learned the Haydn symphony by playing it over & over again on the phonograph, then trying parts on the piano. Newsmen asked him about his musical plans. Said he: "I think I'm a little young yet just...
Then nine-year-old Michael Spivak (whose father is concertmaster of the orchestra) gravely led the musicians through two movements of Haydn's "Toy" Symphony. At the proper moments, a two-note "cuckoo" chirped from the orchestra. It was Sir Ernest, on the ocarina...
Boston's Handel and Haydn Society opened its one hundred and thirty-first season with its annual Christmas performance of "The Messiah" before a large and enthusiastic audience at Symphony Half Sunday might...