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...Sully spent a year in Munich as a Sheldon Travelling Fellow; since then he has been teaching German at Harvard. In his home at 18 Mt. Auburn Street, he reads the Old Testament in the original, saves pennies in brass pig toward his record collection, and murders Beethoven and Haydn on the piano which stands in his bedroom beside a bust of Groucho Marx...
...Budapest String Quartet, just before it left Victor to sign up with Columbia, recorded the Mozart "Hunting" Quartet, now being released. This is one of those six wonderful quartets dedicated to Haydn, which prompted the older master to say to Leopold Mozart that "Before God and as I am honest man, your son is the greatest composer I have ever known, personally or by name." And Haydn was right. The Budapest Quartet plays this music with impeccable balance and finish. . . . Another accomplished artist, Robert Casadesus, plays Ravel's "Valses Nobles et Sentimentales" in a Columbia album. You will not find...
...program, the orchestra will give: the Overture to "Le Magnifique" by Gretry; Symphony No. 1 in E-flat ("Drumroll") by Haydn; Chaconne in E-minor by Buxtehude, transcribed for orchestra by Malcolm W. Holmes, conductor of the Harvard University Orchestra; "Serenata Notturna" by Mczart; Concertino for Clarinet and Orchestra by Jan La Rue '40; and Variations on "Mary Had a Little Lamb" by Edward Ballantine, associate professor of Music...
...Harvard University Orchestra (Pierian Sodality of 1808) will top off a successful season tonight in its annual concert at Paine Hall, conducted by Malcolm Holmes. Including eighteenth-century classics and products of Harvard College, the program opens with Gretry's Overture to "Le Magnifique," and Haydn's superb "Drum Roll" Symphony. The Mozart Serenata Notturna for string orchestra, string quartet, and tympani which follows, will have the expert collaboration of the Stradivarius String Quartet, and Buxtehude's organ Chaconne in E minor will have the collaboration of Malcolm Holmes, who has transcribed the work for orchestra. Closing the program...
...Composer Haydn, who never went to Spain, arranged his Seven Words not only for orchestra but for chorus, piano, string quartet. In none of these forms has the work been much performed in the U.S. Year ago the string version of the Seven Words was given its U.S. debut, by the Primrose Quartet. On sale last week was the first recording of it (Victor: 17 sides; $9), a fine one by the same outfit, whose boss is crisp, Scottish-born, cricket-playing William Primrose, world's best viola player...