Word: sibelius
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...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Sibelius' Symphony No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Mozart's Piano Concerto in C Major. Conductor: Artur Rodzinski. Soloist: Pianist Wanda Landowska...
Boston Symphony--Concerts tomorrow night, Friday afternoon, and Saturday evening feature Handel's D minor Concerto Grosso, a Prokovieff ballet suite ("Chout"), and the Sibelius first symphony, Concertmaster Richard Burgin conducts this week...
Five Bars in Helsinki. Freddy himself was only 16 when he committed his first crime against classical music. He and some fellow high-school boys had played their way to Europe on a Cunard liner. Later, in Helsinki, playing at a hotel, they heard that Jean Sibelius would be a dinner guest that night. They hurriedly worked up a ragtime version of Sibelius' Valse Triste. Sibelius heard five bars of it, and stalked heavily from the room. Says Freddy now: "That's one reason I've never attempted to do anything with Sibelius...
Mahler had few good words for his contemporaries. Of Puccini he said (after a performance of Tosca): "Nowadays any bungler orchestrates to perfection"; of Sibelius: "The most hackneyed clichés were served up with harmonizations in the 'Nordic' style"; and of Strauss: "A heap of slag...
...think of it. Our sluggish mental habits make so much great music seem esoteric. We shut out our participation because we are afraid. Bartók is one of the imperishable creative artists. His position is less likely to be corroded by the years than that of Sibelius or Strauss or Prokofiev...