Word: munched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last weekend Brahms' First Symphony received its first performance. This is not to say that a work by this name hasn't appeared before. In fact, it has been going the rounds since 1876. But anyone who heard Charles Munch conduct Brahms' in Symphony Hall must have had the feeling of hearing it for the first time...
...performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis done in Boston these day's can't help but be compared to Serge Koussevitzky's interpretation of the same work, either as performed in Symphony Hall two years ago or as released on records. The version given by Charles Munch with the Boston Symphony, the Glee Club, and the Radcliffe Choral Society, yesterday afternoon was certainly different, and in many places better...
...Munch's interpretation of the great D Major Mass was by all odds more dramatic. He achieved this effect by having everything played faster, with more dynamic contrasts, and with more snap. Whether or not yesterday's concert was good or bad, depends largely on the individual. But nobody who heard it can deny that it led to an extremely exciting afternoon...
...Munch and the vast number of people on the Symphony Hall stage did their best to clarify this setting of the Roman Catholic Mass. By giving it such a dramatic treatment especially in the first half the audience couldn't help concentrating on every note. The result was that the musical setting of the text made sense...
...chorus work was magnificent throughout. Great credit must go to Professor Woodworth who prepared the Glee Club and Choral Society. It must be extraordinarily difficult to rehearse them for Koussevitzky one year and change style completely two years later for Munch. Their response to the conducting through all of Beethoven's surprises was excellent, and their top speed singing in the Gloria was nothing short of amazing...