Word: sibelius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canberra, Australia, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra played to a packed house. The concert program listed Sibelius' Symphony No. 2, to be followed by Tchaikovsky. But, because of a last-minute switch in conductors, there was an unannounced change in the schedule: Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony became the major work, followed by Berlioz' Hungarian March. Sibelius-whose disciplined power is poles apart from the romantic extravagance of Tchaikovsky-was off the program entirely...
...Helsinki, Composer Jean Sibelius celebrated his 88th birthday at a quiet family party at home...
Tightpants battles on alone, aided only by miracles. His Olga Song ("Olga-whose eyes were violets / Olga-whose tears were pearls . . .") is a smash hit, partly because Olga comes "down" with a heavenly choir and sings it herself. His Olga Lasenka Symphony is hailed as "as great as Sibelius' Finlandia." But Tightpants is not present when it is performed in Carnegie Hall. Burned to death in a nightclub fire, he has joined Olga in the homelandia of a Wilkes-Barre grave...
Composer Jean (Finlandia) Sibelius, 87, great bald eagle of symphonic music, was named winner of the first international Wihuri Foundation music award (after Millionaire Finnish Shipowner Antti Wihuri) for "promoting the spiritual and economic work of humanity." The $21,250 prize money, added to the generous lifetime annuity he gets from a grateful Finland, should keep him puffing his beloved cigars till the end of his days...
World Music Festivals (Sun. 2130 p.m., CBS). "Sibelius Festival," recorded in Finland...