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Gilbert Symphonic Piece Strauss "Don Juan", Tone-poem Respighi: Symphonic Poem, "Pini Di Roma...
...this symphony which marked the end of Haydn's stay in England; after it was played at the Hanover Square Rooms, his triumph was complete. M. Koussevitzky will please the lover of rhythm, and of another century too, tonight, when he conducts the "Pini Di Roma" of Respighi. I shall Union. It has always been my opinion that the Everest climbers were our modern seekers for the Holy Grail,--surely there is a gallantry about the death of Mallory which cannot be denied. However, my choice is made, and it will be Sanders Theatre...
Florence Mills, pastel darktown strutter, made a very serious concert bow last week before the International Composers' Guild, Manhattan, Eugene Goossens and Ottorino Respighi conducting; Mme. Respighi, soloist, and Alfredo Casella, pianist. Thin, glittering, syncopation in her eye, she sang four songs with a small jazz orchestra-"Levee Land" it was called, by William Still...
...turned reluctant feet down 57th Streethick-set little man scooted out on the stage and started for the conductor's daisg a band of able musicians how his "Clock" symphony should be playedras for nearly a decade now. Here are the pines of the Villa Borgheseini, a triumph for Respighi and the U.S. debut of a certain English nightingale in the third movement. For Respighi disdained any nightingale effect that might be obtained from strings or woodwinds, used a gramophone record made by a real birdToscanini as to make the readings of lesser men seem imitative and frail...
...Philharmonic. Eager ears have finally been greeted by the first orchestral music of the season. The first to break the summer's silence was Mr. Van Hoogstraten with the Philharmonic. The major feature of the program was the Sinfonia Drammatica of Ottorino Respighi. Signer Respighi has hitherto been known as the composer of the agreeable Fontane di Roma. His latest offering, while it has never before been heard in Manhattan, actually was composed before the other, and shows it. It is an effective com- position, but with traces of immaturity and it is unhappily reminiscent. There is Tchaikovsky...