Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the direction of Serge Koussevitsky, the Boston Symphony Orchestra this evening will give a concert in Sanders Theatre. This performance, to take place at 8 o'clock, will be the next to last of this season's concerts; the final one taking place on April 14. Jesus Sanroma will accompany the orchestra as soloist...
...first number on this evening's program will be Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 in D major, Opus 36. This will be followed by the initial presentation of the Poem for Orchestra by Hill. "Pacific 231", an Orchestral Movement by Honegger, will be the next selection...
...orchestra played loud and shrill...
...group had done earlier in the week. As always much honor must go to Dr. Davison and Mr. Woodworth for their excellent work in training the chorus and to Mr. Koussevitaky who, by his wonderful personality and understanding was able to get the beat from them as from the orchestra...
...affliction was even greater, for a musician, than blindness. Ludwig van Beethoven was bodily sound but became stone deaf. As his hearing dwindled, his conducting, which he would not give up, became more and more ludicrous. He would bend over his keys to hear what he played until his orchestra quite lost sight of him. At the crescendoes he could and would straighten up, crouch up, stand up, finally leap up off the floor itself in passionate release...