Word: sibelius
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SYMPHONY HALL. Colin Davis conducting the BSO. Sibelius Symphony No. 3 and Elgar Violin Concerto (soloist: Silverstein). Tickets...
...remaining in the drowning, the p.a. announced a "post-game Slavic concert" in the Cornell stands. Sure enough, while the Harvard band ran for the warmth and security of the Band room, Cornell, in their marine trench coats, stood on the fifty-yard line and began a rendition of Sibelius 'Finlandia' in the middle of the downpour. I don't know what they played next, and neither did the rest of the Cambridge crowd which dashed for Harvard Square...
...orchestra in the world during the past two decades, he has shown that his heart is as old-fashioned as was Szell's. Cleveland listeners may expect large doses of the 19th century (Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky), snippets of Baroque (Bach, mostly) and careful slices of the 20th century (Sibelius, Stravinsky, Bartok). Thus the Maazel appointment means that Cleveland intends to continue its Old World ways, with one important exception: Maazel (born in Paris of California parents) is only the second American, after Leonard Bernstein, ever to head one of the five top orchestras...
...Sibelius was the only major composer to live longer (91). Schütz and Verdi died at 87, Telemann and Saint-Saëns at 86, and Vaughan Williams and Richard Strauss...
...Sibelius had put on his white suit and that broad brimmed, flat-crowned hat of tan felt which so often appears in his photographs. He was in high spirits and conversation was lively. It was about history, literature, music, philosophy, ethics, the demonic element in the creative process, and a good deal else which I have never felt at liberty to repeat. He also talked of Goethe, Byron, Wagner, Ibsen, Emerson, Brahms, of his own preference in working hours, of what to do when the spring refusesto flow, and about his relationship with his publishers...