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...well as a brilliant pianist, mounted a podium in the floodlighted Lewisohn Stadium, led the Philharmonic-Symphony expertly through the Star-Spangled Banner, Wagner's rousing overture to Die Meistersinger, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, three dances from De Falla's Three-Cornered Hat and, with Violinist Albert Spalding, the Mendelssohn Concerto. As usual, aged Adolph Lewisohn, donor of the Stadium and a patron of the concerts, made a little speech. So did peppery, music-loving Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia. Hooted and booed by radicals on the hard 25¢ seats, the son of a onetime Army bandmaster retorted: "Music hath charms...
...College, Iowa, and on to Ann Arbor, Mich., where local choristers have long sung like professionals. Cincinnati's biennial festival took five days last week. Soloists were there from Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. Seven hundred schoolchildren sang at the Saturday matinee. Trained adults were well equal to Mendelssohn's Elijah, to Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Conductor Eugene Goossens had prepared three premieres especially for the occasion: Atalanta in Calydon, skillfully designed by Granville Bantock; La Belle Dame sans Merci, a rambling peroration by Cyril Scott; a sonorous Stabat Mater by Cincinnati's own Martin...
...Lohengrin, Introduction to Act IIIWagner (Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn *Pavane Ravel *Carmen, Suite Bizet Aragenaise--Intermezzo--Gypsy Dance *Danse Macabre, Symphonic Poem Saint-Saens *Fifth Symphony in E minor, Andante Cantabile Techaikovsky *Espana, Rhapsody Chabrier *"Music in the Air," Selection Kern *"Wine, Woman, and Song," Waltzes Strauss *"Only One Vienna," March Schrammel Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard...
...danger of war today is less than it was five years ago, according to Professor Albrecht Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, who reviewed the European situation in a speech in Emerson Hall yesterday afternoon. He stressed the fact that several years ago there were conflicts between France and Italy, Italy and Jugoslavia, and Rumania and Russia. These conflicts have now almost completely disappeared, he said...
Professor Albrecht Mendelssohn-Barholdy grandson of the composer Mennasohn will lecture today on "The European Situation as Seen from Oxford' in Emerson D at 4.30 o'clock...