Word: mendelssohn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tonight's pops concert, to be held in Symphony Hall, will begin at 8.15 o'clock. The program follows: Marche Militaire Schubert Overture to "Ruy Blas" Mendelssohn "On the Steppes of Middle-Asia" Orchestra Sketch Borodin Orchestral Sketch Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt Overture to "Sicilian Vespers" Verdi Symphonic Piece from "Redemption" Franck Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg First Hungarian Dance in G minor Brahms Waltz, "Artists' Life" Strauss Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, from "Tannhauser" Wagner
...immortal creators have escaped periods of neglect and contumely. Shakespeare, as everyone knows, was regarded as a second-rater during part of the 18th Century, and various imbeciles set themselves to the job of editing and improving him. Even Bach had his twilight, and it took a Mendelssohn to rescue him. But only fools have ever questioned the mightiness of Beethoven-and not many fools...
...Frederic Francois Chopin (1810-49) famed pianist and composer, born at Zelazowa-Wola, near Warsaw, son of a French father and a Polish mother. At 15 he published his first composition. At 21 he was already great among such great musicians as Mendelssohn, Liszt; soon outranked them. At 27 he began his curious and celebrated intimacy with Amandine Dudevant ("George Sand"). When he died, at 39, after having composed some 200 major works, his stupendous funeral at Paris was but a feeble tribute to his genius...
...Franck's symphony came next, mystic, scarlet-tinged. Then came Stravinsky's L'Oiseau de Feu sweeping its fantastic plumage through a maze of golden apples and silver trees, stripped a little of its diabolism, but gloriously exotic withal. There was the scherzo from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream with its solo for Flutist Yeschke, new this season, and the dances from Borodin's Prince Igor, strident, barbarous, voluptuous...
Engaged. Lord Sholto George Douglas, third son of the late famed fistic arbiter, John Sholto Douglas, eighth marquess of Queensberry; to Mrs. Mendelssohn Pickles, mother of famed Australian airplane test pilot Sydney Pickles...