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...German music is fat and heavy-weight," says Mr. Ernest Newman, distinguished music critic of the London Sunday Times, now visiting New York. Contrasted with the compositions of Bach, Beethoven, and Wagner, Mr. Newman says those of the French musicians, Bizet, Debussy, and Ravel, are "thin" and "lightweight". Music, then has weight? Modern developments in music prove that Orpheus was an amateur, and that Mozart and Chopin had the merest smattering of musical structure...
...Symphony Hall this afternoon and tomorrow evening, the second pair of concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting. The program: Haendel, Concerto Grosso in D minor; Debussy, Dance (Orchestrated by Ravel); De Falla, "El Amor Brujo", and Beethoven, Symphony...
...Symphony Hall Friday afternoon and Saturday evening, the second pair of concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The program comprises Haendel's Concerto Grosso for Strings, Ravel's orchestration of a Dance by Debussy, de Falla's Suite and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
...Maurice Ravel, Frenchman of devilish cleverness and satanic fertility, is busy putting the delights and horrors of Monte Carlo into operatic form. His libretto was written by Mme. Colette, who had laid its scene on the Côte d'Azur...
...least to escape from the relentless grip of the fast-moving comedy to appreciate the skill with which every twist of the story is made to add a little more to the general excitement; one is not so entirely absorbed in following the action, one has leisure to ravel in the luxurious loveliness of Miss Owen, delightful mendacity of Frang Lalor, and the grotesque terror of Grant Mitchell. And repetition seems to rob the situations of none of their humor...