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Catholicity, which has always been Mr. Monteux's most characteristic virtue, was his again in yesterday's concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall. Both extremes and the mean in racial heritage were represented on the program: Sibelius for the gray northerners, Respighi for the warm exuberant Latins, Bridge, for neutrality incarnate. On it was nothing from his own native France; yet he fared more than well with the two which fell to his lot, Mr. Bridge conducting his own suite...
Some ancient dances of Respighi proved graceful and charming. The whole concert was well received, Sibelius receiving almost his due, and Mr. Bridge considerably more than that...
...Music Department of the American Academy in Rome has been active during the past season. There was a recital of Respighi's works by the composer himself and his wife, compositions by Pizzetti, and a recital of modern pieces by Amy Niel of Chicago...
After much competition Miss Margaret Sheridan was selected to create the prima donna role of Candida in Respighi's new opera, Belfagor, which is to be produced in a month at the La Scala house in Milan, Toscanini conducting. Some four years ago Miss Sheridan appeared in Covent Garden, London...
...best voice. But for the most part she sang beautifully; by the time she reached Strauss's "Mit deinen blauen Augen" she had recovered all her powers and from then on she gave a flawless and impressive performance. Of simple charm was Warlock's "That Even I Saw"; Respighi's "Pioggia" rivals Strauss's "Schlechtes Wetter" in picture painting; "From the Brake the Nightingale" by Mme. Homer's husband, Sydney Homer, equals Macdowell's beauty, and dispenses with his cloying sweetness; while the same composer's "How's my boy?" is of strange power, reminiscent in general spirit of Synge...