Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three festival weeks to come, there would be performances of the Mozart and Verdi requiems, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, Haydn's Creation, Schubert's Mass in E-Flat Major in a rich surrounding of orchestra and string literature...
...fishmonger, Hattori grew up in brawling Osaka, the New Orleans of jazzu. At 16, he landed with a boy's band employed by a rich eel merchant to drum up business. By 1925, Hattori was so expert on flute and oboe that the Osaka Symphony Orchestra hired him. But jazz looked more profitable, and Hattori quit the symphony to organize the most famous of early Jap jazzbands, "Hattori and His Manila Red-Hot Stompers...
...self-described bastard, was born 54 years ago in a Manchester slum. His buxom mother and her two sisters took in laundry until they learned that taking lovers was more rewarding; Neville was one of the rewards. His father, whom he never knew, was first violinist in an orchestra...
Mozart: Symphony No. 40, K. 550 (the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eugen Jochum conducting; Capitol-Telefunken, 6 sides). Because the Concertgebouw takes this Mozart masterpiece at a slightly slower pace, it does not have quite the flow or power of Fritz Reiner's recent recording for Columbia (TIME, Jan. 3). Recording: good...
Reger: The BÖcklin Suite (German Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague, Joseph Keilberth conducting; Capitol-Telefunken, 6 sides). Max Reger, Bavarian organist and composer, was something of a musical tornado in his time (1873-1916), notable for his free & easy ways with harmony and modulation. His more ponderous scores are seldom heard, but these four sonorous tone poems deserve to be. Performance and recording: good...