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...Milhaud's "Saudades do Brazil" filled the gap between the two chief pieces on the program as enjoyable and amusing selections. They were followed by the longest work of the concert, Brahms' "Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel." To this listener the sum of the component parts presents a rather uneven collection of interesting and dull music, chief objection to which lies in the fact that the peaks and lows arrive with such regularity that one finds himself awaiting what Pope called "The sure return of still expected rhymes." Fortunately, there is a Fugue of romantic exuberance...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Prelude and Allegro by Couperin-Milhaud; Krenek's Symphony No. 4; Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor. Clifford Curzon at the piano, Dimitri Mitropoulos on the podium...
...pieces--a prelude and allegro by Couperin and an organ fugue of Bach--were played in modern orchestrations--by Milhaud and Williams respectively. Music critics of good taste have for years been screaming at conductors like Stokowski and Koussevitsky not to distort Bach, but when the orchestration is done by composers of the calibre of Williams and Milhaud, the result is quite different. Like a great translation which becomes a work of art by its own merits, a good transcription becomes a piece of music which can be enjoyed as a new work. Purists might still complain, but with...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Cimarosa's Three Brothers Overture; Haydn's Symphony No. 97 in C Major; Sanders' Saturday Night ; Milhaud's Suite Francaise. Conductor: Izler Solomon...
Composer Honegger, now 55, had been, 30 years ago, one of the noisiest of the famed French Six (only two others, Milhaud and Poulenc, ever amounted to anything). In those days in Paris, Swiss Composer Honegger had spent as much time talking as composing, and his talk was mainly directed, against the pernicious influence of jazz and the "street fair." He wanted his music to be austere...