Word: sibelius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next night, the brilliant 110-piece Philadelphia Orchestra was on the stage. Eugene Ormandy led Sibelius' Seventh Symphony, and Violinist Nathan Milstein was the soloist in Beethoven's Violin Concerto. Their Manhattan concert was routine for the Philadelphians, who will play Carnegie Hall ten times this season...
Then came Sibelius' First Symphony. When it was good it was very, very good; but when...
...Orchestra will present Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, the Mozart Thirty-ninth Symphony, and the Sibelius First Symphony. Sander Shapiro '54, violinist, Daniel Pinkham, harpsichordiat, and Kathleen Henry and Karin Peterson, flutists, are soloists...
...annual festival opened last fortnight (see Music) with a speech by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. But the festivities really got under way when a violent little man with a spiky beard raised his baton over the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and brought it down on the first beat of Sibelius' Symphony No. 7 in C Major. Sir Thomas Beecham, Bart, was on the podium, where he belonged...
...Conducted on opening night, in a brilliant all-Sibelius program, by famed Sir Thomas Beecham (see PERSONALITY...