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...ghastly musical tedium guaranteed by the usual subscription concert (can anyone living in Boston ever want to hear the Symphonie Fantastique again?), but why, Miss de los Angeles, when Schubert wrote over six hundred songs, must we have yet another performance of An die Musik, and why when Ravel's Chansons madecasses lie neglected, must we feel satisfied with his Vocalise and a few marrons glaces by Faure...
...aging master has no more qualms than he ever did about tampering with the instrumentation of the masters to achieve the sound he wants. "You must realize," he says, "that Beethoven and Brahms did not understand instruments. Composers like Ravel, Debussy and Mozart did." Nor can he see why the high professional gloss of his new orchestra should cause surprise. Says Stokowski: "It's a misunderstanding that an orchestra must be together for a long time; some orchestras have been together for a century and still cannot play well...
...STUDENTS: Monday, Aug. 13, The Beaux Arts Trio of New York, Sanders Theatre at 8:30 p.m. Open to the public without charge. Ravel- Haydn - Beethoven program...
Friday, August 3: 3:15 p.m. Chamber Music Hall - Friends Event. 8 p.m. Shed - Boston Symphony Orchestra - Conductor Charles Munch: Debussy: Three Nocturnes; Honegger: Symphony No.5; Saint-Saens; Cello Concerto (Mayes); Ravel: La Valse...
...palmy years, from 1890 to 1925, the Monte Carlo gave the world premieres of major works by Berlioz, Ravel, Faure, Honegger, Poulenc and Milhaud, attracted the famed Diaghilev Ballet. More recently it had become little more than a second-rate casino group catering to the international gambling set. Then, six years ago, in an effort to alter the popular, frivolous image of Monte Carlo as a playboy playground. Rainier set out to refurbish his concert orchestra. His first-and canniest-move was to hire ex-French Foreign Legion Officer Frémaux...