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...felt-padded mechanical fingers fitted over the keys, playing the music back with all the expression and personality of the original performer. There was Debussy playing some of his Preludes and his Children's Corner Suite; Saint-Saëns, Faure, Grieg, Scriabin, Falla, Granados, Richard Strauss and Mahler performing their own compositions on the piano. There were kings of the keyboard-DePachmann, Leschetizky, Busoni, D'Albert and famed Conductor-Pianist Arthur Nikisch -playing Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, and their own works...
Back to Boris? Paid off by luck, big George was picking his way carefully. He was not quite ready for a Manhattan debut recital, he thought. But he had signed to sing in Mahler's Symphony No. 8 with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in April and in Beethoven's Ninth with the Philadelphia Orchestra in May. Almost closed was a deal to sing in The Marriage of Figaro at the Edinburgh Festival this summer...
...three festival weeks to come, there would be performances of the Mozart and Verdi requiems, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, Haydn's Creation, Schubert's Mass in E-Flat Major in a rich surrounding of orchestra and string literature...
...because its choral movement is so gigantic it usually overshadows the other movements. That was certainly the case last weekend. The Orchestra faithfully pledged through the first three movements. There were occasional groans from the audience when one of the brass players (hired specially to meet the requirements of Mahler's bloated score) went berserk. But starting with Nan Mcrriman's contralto solo in the fourth movement, things began to pick up, and by the time the Finale came along, everyone had forgotten the preceding movements...
...into the hall, carrying the seprano solo along on top. The discipline of the Chorus was a real tribute to its director, Professor Woodworth. Adcle Addison, the seprano soloist, sang her part clearly and beautifully. And for the second time in two years, Leonard Bernstein had successfully brought Mahler's Second Symphony to Boston...