Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Salute to 1939 (Sun. 2 p.m. NBC-Red, Blue) by Kirsten Flagstad, Ezio Pinza, Walter Hampden, Eva Le Gallienne, Walter Damrosch, Olsen and Johnson, Larry Clinton's orchestra on a special two-hour Magic Key program...
...Musical Russia Choir (Sun. 3 p. m. CBS) sings Vaughan Williams' Fantasy on Christmas Carols, Fuerst's transcription of Tchaikovsky's Legend, three carols by Peter Warlock, three chorals from Bach's Christmas Oratorio with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. John Barbirolli conducts the orchestra in the overture to Handel's Messiah, Beethoven's Fourth Symphony...
...smouldering in ashtrays, and too much gaiety. It is a desperate gaiety; this party has to be better, livelier, than last night's because this is a bigger night; and last night's had to surpass the one before, and so on. Somehow, everything is wrong. Somehow, the excellent orchestra is too loud, too fast. Somehow, the floor is too crowded, the decorations too garishly bizarre...
Money for the committee will be gathered by such benefit performances as a joint glee club concert of the four colleges. Ernest M. Jarndorf '41, of the University Refugee Committee, suggested that a benefit of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, formerly planned for the use of the Harvard Committee, might be turned over to the central group...
Eugene List (Sun. 3 p. m. CBS) plays Franck's Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra, Anis Fuleihan's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the New York Philhar-monic-Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting. Also Bach's Suite in D Major, No. 3, Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, Wagner's prelude to Die Meistersinger...