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...Holst's First Suite for Military Band has a few attractive folk tunes but moves along with commonplace ostinatos and harmonies; Clifton Williams' Concertino blusters with some excitement and nothing more. And the empty pomposity of William Latham's Proud Heritage makes one proud of nothing at all. The performances, nonetheless, were clean and the band's sound maintained that peculiar vitality which good wind playing must have...
...Faust, in translation if necessary; at least the First Part, and the Second also in time to come. Both are done in Germany. Yale gave a magnificent performance of Part One in 1949, the bicentenary of Goethe's birth. They made one bad mistake; used a phonograph recording of Holst's The Planets, when they had to hand the rich fare of Faust music, Wagner's Overture, Liszt's Symphony, Berlioz's dramatic oratorio, and Boito's opera Meflstofele...
...Helge Holst of the Cambridge Citizens' Advisory Committee further described the legal background and asked the committee to find a "permanent answer" to the problem, one which would prevent the bill from coming up in future years...
Perhaps the finest singing of the program was heard in the familiar Coventry Carol, a delicate song, delicately phrased and shaped. It was followed by the service's only real lapse, a glib medley of old carols arranged by Gustav Holst called "Christmas Day." Such glossy potpourris might better be left to television...
...more than 70, has found an unlikely new musical home, and though he has never quite stepped out of the limelight, is experiencing another renaissance. Stokie's Houston Symphony concerts are sold 98% in advance, and he has produced first-rate new recordings in The Orchestra and Gustav Holst's The Planets...