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...concerts are scheduled for Cambridge this week. On Thursday the Boston Symphony Orchestra will play the following program at Sanders Theatre: Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, Mathis der Mahler of Hindemith, and Wagner's Prelude to Die Meistersinger. The Stradivarius Quartet will play the following evening in Fogg Art Museum. Their program has not been announced...
...their program the Cincinnatians had chosen a massive musical barbecue that only the stoutest and most experienced musical stomachs could digest. Most notable piece de resistance was the huge 8th Symphony of Gustav Mahler, for full chorus, boys' choir, a 102-man symphony orchestra and a choir of brass instruments off stage. One of the most impressive of 20th-century symphonic works, Mahler's immense, unwieldy, hour-and-a-half-long symphony is seldom performed. When Leopold Stokowski played it in Philadelphia 23 years' ago, proud Philadelphians crowed as though they had hatched a world...
...short recorded examples of music typical of all periods from the loth Century to the present. The Columbia History's fifth and last volume gives a taste and a sniff of the 20th Century's principal musical styles, ranges from the romantic Schwarmerei of Richard Strauss and Mahler to the quarter-tone caterwauling of Kulturbolschewik Alois Haba...
...casts of the operatic scenes thus sampled contained no great names. For their productions, thick-spectacled Stage Director Felix Brentano and Conductor Fritz Mahler had chosen young, cooperative U. S. singers, devoid of upstage ideas. Thus equipped they rehearsed their operatic scenes as a conductor rehearses a symphony orchestra, shaped each musical phrase and each dramatic moment to fit, coordinated the action of the characters down to the 'slightest detail. By performance time they had done some 200 hours of solo, group and general rehearsing, far more than the most lavishly financed large-scale opera house could have afforded...
...operettas (The Merry Widow, et al.). Carmen, a perennial favorite in German opera houses, was written by French Composer Georges Bizet, who is generally credited with some Jewish blood. Kulturkammer authorities got around this difficulty by officially "Aryanizing" Bizet. Although music by such Jewish composers as Mendelssohn, Mahler. Meyerbeer is now unheard in Germany, German publishing houses go on publishing it for export, and do a pretty good business...