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After intermission, the orchestra breezed through six not-very-challenging movements of Shostakovitch's Suite from Incidental [and very trivial] Music to Hamlet, half of which sounds like a collection of ditties out of a Gilbert and Sullivan treatment of the play. The other half suggests the score of a Joseph L. Mankiewicz Hamlet starring Mr. and Mrs. Burton...
Reger, Suite in G Major for Unaccompanied Cello, (C) M L 4678 14.7; Shostakovitch, Symphony #1 in F Major, Op 10, (A) And 35361 28.5; Mendeissohn; Octet in Eb Major...
...Handel: Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, #12; Le Marteridest; Sebastien, Debussy; Mozaert: Quartet #23; Wagner: Parsifal Prelude and Good Friday Spell; Smetana: Quartet in E Minor; Shostakovitch: Symphony #1; Beethoven: Cello Sonato #2 for Cello
...Strauss, J.: Die Fledermaus Overture (ML); J.S.: Sonata #3 in E Major for Harpsichord and Violin (ML); Schubert: Symphony #8 in B. minor (D); Beethoven: Quartet #2 in G Major (ML); Shostakovitch: Concerto for Piano...
...orchestra, besides performing accepted classics, has kept the Cambridge public aware of new musical work. Music by Shostakovitch, Piston, Mennin, and Vaughan Williams has appeared on the H-R O program, despite the objections of reactionary elements in the Cambridge audience. Soloists such as Ruth Posselt, Joseph Szigeti, and Johanna Martzy have performed in Cambridge under Pierian's auspices, and university hopefuls also