Word: sabata
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...Cincinnati, Conductor Victor de Sabata of the Monte Carlo Opera made his debut at a concert given for the delegates to the American Public Health Association. Each concert, it was announced, will be dedicated to a Cincinnati institution, those in the first half season to be led by Conductor de Sabata, after Jan. 6 by Fritz Reiner, now in Philadelphia on leave of absence. Vladmir Bakaleinikov will lead the popular and young people's concerts...
Arturo Toscanini, famed Italian now functioning as guest leader of the New York Philharmonic, conducted his third program in Carnegie Hall, honored Vivaldi, Beethoven, De Sabata, and Stravinsky with his reading of their works. De Sabata, an Italian "modern," was represented by "Gethsemane," a symphonic poem, vague, impressionistic-night in a lonely garden, a stern voice breaking through the darkness to speak the awful law of redemption through renunciation; dawn, stillness, prayer; carefully explained but shallow, unoriginal music for which even the philanthropic genius of a Toscanini could not achieve distinction. But a great public on its knees...