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Rimsky-Korsakoff: Scheherazade (San Francisco Symphony, Pierre Monteux conducting; Victor; 9 sides). The Pacific crew delivers an especially spicy version of this Oriental tale...
Franck: Symphony in D Minor (Two recordings: Sir Thomas Beecham and the London Philharmonic Orchestra; Columbia; 10 sides; and Pierre Monteux and the San Francisco Symphony; Victor; 10 sides). Both jobs on this much-played symphony are good; the Victor is larger in scale...
...early Bar Harbor days, says she hated him, married him after three years of it. For the Du Pont-Roosevelt wedding, at which Mr. Davis played, Mrs. D. wrote a piece called You Are the Reason for My Love Song. A sister-in-law of Conductor Pierre Monteux, she had a serious composition, The Last Knight, performed by the NBC Symphony, with M. Monteux conducting...
...will hear Partita No. 1 by Bach played by Yehudi Menuhin,' and the music flew in that farm as some years before in the Opera House in Paris, or the Salle Pleyel. And I remembered your playing with Enesco and orchestra under direction of Monteux and the only remembrance of these souvenirs of mine was so hot, they swept away the winds in the country, the planes overhead, and the anti-aircraft engines, and the guns and all that sort of thing...
...over innocent, crotchety Dr. Muck, turned the orchestra's management over to a board of directors, died a year later. Many of the orchestra's best players had been deported as "enemy aliens." In turn, two more acceptable but less capable French conductors, Henri Rabaud and Pierre Monteux, strove vainly to regain the lost ground. A strike, supported by the American Federation of Musicians, though won by the management, further depleted the orchestra's ranks. But by 1924 the Boston Symphony, recovered from its wartime jitters, was being reorganized for a comeback. Soon it was back...