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...program which will be played on the new $50,000 Isham organ follows: Prelude (Symphony 1)--Vierne (Mr. Phelps): On Mighty Pens (Creation)--Haydn (Miss Morton), Chorale in A "Minor--Franck (Mr. Phelps); Hear Ye Israel (Elijah)--Mendelssohn (Miss Morton) Choral Improvisation--Karg-Elect, and Sertie--Reports (Mr. Phelps...
Bethlehem this spring entrusted its festival to the leadership of Bruce Anderson Carey, a bespectacled, broad-shouldered Canadian of 57 who teaches at Girard College in Philadelphia, trains and conducts the Mendelssohn Glee Club so well that Conductor Leopold Stokowski frequently engages it to sing difficult choral works with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Like blond-mopped Stokowski, Bruce Carey conducted last week without a baton, bringing out the Mass's mighty effects with direct, compelling gestures of his two bare hands. During intermission Festival directors met to discuss ways & means of perpetuating Fred Wolle's idea, to keep Bethlehem...
...program for the Pops Concert at 8.30 o'clock tonight in Symphony Hall will be as follows: Coronation March, Meyerbeer; "Mignon" overture, Thomas; "Kammenoi Ostrow", Rubenstein; "Carmen" fantasia, Bizet; Finale, violin concerto, Mendelssohn; "Kol Nidrei", Bruch, (Cello solo, J. Langendoen); "Marche Slave", Tschaikowsky; "The Skaters" waltz, Waldteufel; Volga Boatmen's Song; "Strike up the Band", Gershwin...
Norwegian Bridal Procession by Grieg; Overture, "Fingal's Cave," by Mendelssohn; Waitz Number 15 by Brahms-Gericke; La Source, Ballet Suite, by Delibes, including Scarf Dance, Love Scene, Variation, and Circassion Dance; Scheherazade, Finale by Rimsky-Korsakov; Large by Handel (Solo violin--J. Theodorowicz, Harp, Organ, and Strings); Dance by Debussy, arranged by Ravel; "Of Thee I Sing" Selection, by Gershwin, "Loin du Bal" by Gillet; "Pomp and Circumstance" by Elgar...
...this fashion last week for the U. S. premiere of Gurrelieder, a choral-symphony by Austrian Arnold Schonberg, most extreme of all musical extremists. No fewer than 532 persons were required to give it: 400 choristers from the Princeton Glee Club, Philadelphia's Fortnightly Club and the Mendelssohn Club; an orchestra of 125 pieces, six soloists and Conductor Stokowski, for whom there appears to be no musical enterprise too colossal.† Philadelphians approached it doubtfully. They were wary of Stokowski's modernistic mood. Schbnberg's awful, shrieking Die Glückliche Hand was still in their minds...