Word: mozart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Koussevitzky is beginning the Sanders Theatre series of the Boston Symphony tonight with a thoroughly orthodox program of works by Berlioz, Mozart, and Dvorak. Frankly, the program sounds like a Sunday evening Pops concert; certainly, it shows little of the customary interest for which Koussevitzky as a program builder, has become justly famous. Recalling with extreme satisfaction the magnificent reading of Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony which began last season's concerts, the Symphony in E minor, "From the New World" by Dvorak, is something of a letdown. We cannot believe that Koussevitzky was governed in his choice by the holiday...
Earlier in the program, the combined string sections and horns will join in a performance of a divertimento in B flat by Mozart, K. No. 287. The piece was composed and presented in 1777, during Mozart's twenty-first year while he was in Munich on the first stages of his ninth concert tour of Europe. Mozart played the first violin in the performance, and prepared for himself a very brilliant part...
...Giovanni (Mon. 11:05 p.m. NBC-Blue). Act I of Mozart's greatest opera; sung by San Francisco Opera Co. Fritz Reiner conducts...
...Mozart: Don Giovanni (Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company, Fritz Busch conducting; Victor: 3 volumes, 46 sides). Though issued last spring to record-collectors, the Glyndebourne recording of Mozart's greatest opera waited until this month for its official release. Perfect teamwork and exquisitely styled singing by Baritone John Brownlee and Soprano Louise Helletsgruber help to make it the year's most notable record...
...well as symphonies, and sometimes connoisseurs have rated their chamber music higher than the rest. When German Historian Oswald Spengler was casting gloomily about for the No. 1 artistic achievement of Western civilization, his slightly decayed palm was finally bestowed on the string quartets, not the symphonies, of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven...