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...Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arthur Fiedler: Overture "Fregal's Cave," Mendelssohn; Symphony No. VIII in F Major, Opus 93, Beethoven Symphonie Classique, Prokoviev...
...Mendelssohn: "Italian" Symphony (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Columbia; 8 sides). A superb, warm performance, ranking with Koussevitzky's shimmering Victor version...
Great composers have not neglected the fanfare. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote one for four trumpets in the Christmas Cantata. Beethoven followed the traditional military style of trumpets in unison in Fidelia. Other flourishes are found in Handel, Schumann, Mendelssohn...
Nazi Germany has produced not one first-rate writer, painter or composer. Nazi Germany repudiated the works of such German artists as Heine, Liebermann and Mendelssohn. Nazi Germany bombed Rotterdam, London, Leningrad, many another treasure house of civilization. Yet fantastic Dr. Joseph Goebbels bleated last week : " The Americans destroy towns of the European Continent with their cultural institutions, of which there are no equals in Chicago or San Francisco. What they cannot buy of European art and culture shall become victim of their terror bomb ers They talk of culture and humanity, but we possess them and are today their...
...Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 ("Scotch") (Minneapolis Symphony, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia; 8 sides). Savory roasting of a melodious chestnut...