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...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Milton Katims conducting Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Turina's La Oración del Torero, Khachaturian's Suite from Gayane...
Examples of the lulling school: Tchaikovsky's None But the Lonely Heart, Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words, and "scores of feeble organ pieces called Dreams, Harmonies du Soir, Berceuse, or Forest Vespers." As for sexiness, Gounod is perhaps the worst offender: "Voluptuousness . . . was in Gounod's nature; he could not escape it. In opera it is fine; in the church it has no place. Listen to The Redemption ... or to the Seven Last Words of Gounod's spiritual disciple, Dubois! The suave melodies are the same, the suggestive rhythms are the same, the osculatory orchestration...
...Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 (Reformation) (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor, 7 sides). One of Mendelssohn's least attractive symphonies, in which the brassy ponderousness of the two outer movements smothers the charm and simplicity of the woodwinds in the two inner movements, done as attractively as possible by Sir Thomas. Performance: good...
...Reinhardt brought Korngold to the U.S. in 1934 to arrange Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream music for the screen. Since then Korngold has written some of the movies' best music, won two Oscars (for the scores for The Adventures of Robin Hood, Anthony Adverse). Currently cinemagoers can hear his passionate cello concerto winding and whining through Bette Davis' Deception...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). An all-Mendelssohn program: the Octet in E-Flat Major, the Fifth (Reformation) Symphony, Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...