Word: sibelius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dinner. Page and his wife (a former ballet dancer, author of a promising 1953 novel, The Bracelet) have two sons, 13 and 16. At college (Cornell '21), Page used to play "the long-necked banjo" to help pay his tuition. Now he has gone hifi, playing Mahler and Sibelius, while he gets in two or three more hours of medical reading or writing after dinner. Bedtime...
...business. The opening concert (Beethoven and Brahms) was conducted by Holland's standout Eduard van Beinum; the next night a U.S. conductor, Emerson Buckley, led a setless but fresh-sounding La Boheme. Planned later this season: Shakespeare's Tempest, with the rarely heard incidental music by Jean Sibelius. Wrote the New York Times's Howard Taubman: "The Berkshires have a major festival [at Tangle-wood]. Now the Catskills. Every mountain range may stand benevolently over one in due time...
World Music Festivals (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). All-Sibelius program. Conductor: Tauno Hannikainen...
...Boston Symphony (Sat. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society. Conductor: Charles Munch. Philadelphia Orchestra (Sun. 12:30 p.m., CBS). Selections from Wagner and Sibelius. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy...
Next morning, readers of the Canberra Times were startled to see Critic Peter Bailey's review of Sibelius' Symphony No. 2 ("The themes are catching and developed with simplicity and beauty . . . from the serious minor cadences of the opening Allegro we move to the lovely waltz-time theme of the Andante . . ."). Bailey carpingly dismissed the Berlioz work ("It seemed an anticlimax to have to listen to an encore by Tchaikovsky...