Word: sergei
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glowing performance of Brahms's D Major Concerto. Because Composer Loeffler is self-critical to the point of keeping finished work unpublished in his desk, because he scorns cheap workmanship and any form of self-exploitation, much of his music is comparatively unknown. Last week in Boston Sergei Koussevitzky conducted his Canticum Fratis Solis in addition to the Pagan Poem. Fortnight ago when the Cleveland Orchestra dedicated its new hall Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff chose Composer Loeffler to write the special Evocation and Composer Loeffler took one of his rare trips out of retirement to attend its performance...
...ruled against another brand of sound cartoon because a leering fish in it writhed up to a mermaid and slapped her on the thigh. But censorship is only a form of public testimony that Mickey Mouse and other animated cartoons are an important and permanent element of international amusement. Sergei Eisenstein, famed Russian director, has said: "They are America's most original contribution to culture...
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 by the Boston Symphony under Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky (Victor, $10)?A magnificent, high-powered reading of the Pathetique in which the Boston strings outdo themselves...
...local station pays for the talent) are the 27 concerts to be broadcast (Columbia) by the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. Last week listeners heard Erich Kleiber, new Berlin conductor (TIME, Oct. 13). They will hear Arturo Toscanini in November, later Bernardino Molinari. Fortnight ago the Boston Symphony under Sergei Koussevitzky gave its first program exclusively for radio (N. B. C.) but the Boston Symphony will not broadcast regularly until Symphony Hall conditions are more favorable than they are now. The Metropolitan Opera continues to ignore radio. The Chicago Civic Company will follow its plan of the past three years: broadcast...
...Sergei Koussevitzky is due 100% credit for the Boston Symphony's present excellence. Seven years ago it was in sorry state. Frenchmen Henri Rabaud and Pierre Monteux, successors to the maligned Karl Muck,? had proved incapable. The directors were appraising all the availables in Europe when they came upon a Russian exiled in Paris. They traced his history: at 12 he had been chef d'orchestre in the theatre of his native town (Tver in North Russia), composed whatever music was required for the plays and conducted the entr'actes. At 14 he went to Moscow to study, chose...