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When great, prolific Composer Franz Joseph Haydn died in 1809, he was buried in a simple grave in one of Vienna's suburban cemeteries. Two days after the burial, enthusiastic medical students bribed the gravedigger, opened the grave and made off with Composer Haydn's head. The theft was discovered eleven years later when Haydn's remains were disinterred and buried more imposingly in the neighboring town of Eisenstadt. Pressed by the police, the skull-collectors delivered up a skull which was promptly attached to the rest of Haydn's skeleton and reburied. But the skull...
...Wedding March, "A Midsummer Night's DreamMendelssohn *Overture to "Russean and Ludmilla" Glinka *Andante (Second Movement) from the "Surprise"Symphony, No 94 Haydn *Finale from "Suite Cinderella" Eric Coates Arrival of the Prince and his Attendants *March of the Smugglers and Gypsy Dance from "Carmen" Bizet *Overture to "Tannhauser' Wagner Orphean Club of Lasalle Junior College George Sawyer Dunham, Conductor. *"Estudiantina" Waltzes Waldt-Eufol *The Toy Trumpet Scott *Czardas from Coppellia Delibes *Selections checked (") are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
Tomorrow evening Dr. Koussevitzky will present the sixth concert in the Sanders Theater series. Elly Kassman will appear as soloist in Saint-Saens' Piano Concerto in G minor, the feature work of a program including Haydn's Symphony in E flat, No. 99, and two Ravel works: the Suite "Mother Goose," and the second suite from the ballet "Daphnis and Chloe...
...same program Emma Boynet, French pianist who appeared with the Boston Symphony two years ago, will be the soloist in the Concerto of Mozart in C Major (Kochel 467). The concert will open with Haydn's Symphony in G major, No. 88, and close with Bach's Organ Passacaglia, as transcribed for orchestra by Ottorino Respighi...
...program for the concerts next Monday evening and Tuesday afternoon by the Boston Symphony consists of Haydn's Symphony in G major, No. 88, Prokofieff's suite, "Licutenant Kije," and Sibelius's Second Symphony...