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William W. Austin '39, pianist, will be the featured soloist in a program that includes works by Beethoven, Bach, and Wagner. The complete program follows: Overture to Egmont Beethoven Minuet; Gavotte C.P. Wood Choral Prelude Bach Symphony in G minor, no. 40 Mozart Prelude to Act III, Lohengrin Wagner Plano Group Aufschwung Elfe Nachtstuck Schumann Valso in E Maskowski Soloist-Austin March from Tannhauser Wagner...
...that he would be doing a real service to the composer he might interpret, that his records would help young conductors with their phrasing and their tempi. Result was the release last week of a Toscanini Wagner album,* which included the Preludes to the first and third acts of Lohengrin; Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung; the tender Siegfried Idyll, composed by Wagner as a Christmas serenade for his wife Cosima the year after their son Siegfried was born. The Toscanini performances are peerless, the recordings faithful. First week sales were unparalleled, according...
...March, "Le Pere de la Victoire"Ganne *Overture to "Mignon" Thomas *"Spring" (For String Orchestra) Grieg *"Fosterians," Rhapsody on Melodies of Stephen Foster Baron *Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner *Song of India Rimsky-Korsakov *Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky Hans Wiener and Dance Group with Orchestra *"La Valse" Ravel *Roumanian Rhapsody Enesco Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
Tonight in Sanders Theatre, the Boston Symphony is giving the sixth concert in its Cambridge series. The program, composed of numbers previously played in Boston, consists of Haydn's Symphony in E flat no. 99, Faure's "Elegie" for Cello and Orchestra, Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole", and the preludes "Lohengrin," "Tristan und Isolde," and "Die Meistersinger". The second half should certainly satisfy Wagner devotees; the first bears especial tribute the Dr. Koussevitzky's skill in program-making...
With each change of opera there was some new singer. German Baritone Eduard Habich was the tipsy, loud-mouthed father in Hänsel und Gretel. Baritone Julius Huehn from Pittsburgh made a sonorous herald for Lohengrin. Chase Baromeo of the late Chicago Civic Opera was the High Priest in Aïda. Chilean Carlo Morelli went through the customary antics as Marcello...