Word: sibelius
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contemporary composers none is more uniformly applauded, or more deservedly so, than the Finn, Sibelius. His first symphony ripens with age and familiarity; it receives full and adequate expression at the hands of Mr. Monteux. It gives the lie to those who assert that Beethoven or Brahms said all that could be said within the limits of sonata form...
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...
...clock tonight in Symphony Hall is as follows: 1. Entrance of the Boyards Halvorsen 2. Overture to "Rienzi" Wagner 3. Waltz, "Tales from the Vienna Woods" Strauss 4. Fantasia, "Pagliacci" Leoncavallo 5. Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg 6. Saeterjentens Sondag ("Solitude on the Mountain") Ole Bull 7. "Valse Triste" Sibelius 8. Carnival in Paris Svendsen 9. "Ekko fra Norden", Selection of Norwegian Airs Wick 10. Ave Maria Schubert-Wilhelmj(Violin, Harp, Strings and Organ) 11. Procession of Bacchus Delibes
...Pops" concert at 8.15 o'clock this evening in Symphony Hall, Boston, follows: 1.Hungarian March Berlioz 2. Overture to "William Tell" Rossini 3. Liebesfreud Kreisler 4. Fantasia, "L'Oracolo" Leoni 5. Finale of "Scheherazade" Rimsky-Korsakov 6. Procession to the Cathedral, from "Lohengrin" Act 2 Wagner 7. "Valse Triste" Sibelius 8. Ouverture Solenelle, "1812" Tschaikovsky 9. Selection, "Orange Blossoms" Herbert 10. "Eili, Eili" arranged by Agide Jacchia 11. Stars and Stripes Forever Sousa