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Sirs: In my opinion the inclusion of Monteverdi, Palestrina and Chopin in the twelve best list of composers voted by the musicologists is almost as absurd as the inclusion of Tin Pan Alley Gershwin by the Stanford students. And where are the two greatest symphonists of our time-Sibelius and Shostakovich...
...same time. He hired the finest operatic artists he could find, supervised their operas, conducted in the pit-and ended by reinvigorating the whole art of opera in England. On the side, he conducted symphony concerts in Queen's and Royal Albert Halls, introduced England to compositions by Sibelius, Strauss, Stravinsky, Delius and many other contemporaries...
...only familiar work on the well balanced program, the Sibelius Fifth Symphony, written in the distant past of 1915, was given an adequate reading. Following the intermission, Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer, conducted the orchestra in-his own new "Abertura Concertante" while not particularly remarkable or inspired, is pleasant and diverting. And knee-deep in a mid-western drawl, engrossed in his Lincolnian stance, speaker Will Geer skillfully assisted she BSO in the local premiere of Aaron Copland's "A Lincoln Portrait" to conclude the concert...
Most prolific living writer of symphonies is Russia's Nicolai Yokovlevich Miaskovsky, who at 61 has already written 23 and is still going strong. Finland's Jean Sibelius and another Russian, Dmitri Shostakovich, may be longer on quality, but they have in their long lives written only seven symphonies apiece. In the U.S., rangy, Oklahoma-born, 45-year-old Roy Harris leads the field. Last week his Fifth Symphony (the first Fifth by any U.S. native, living or dead) was premiered by Boston's Sergei Koussevitsky and broadcast the following night over the Blue Network...
...Sibelius: 7th Symphony (N.Y. Philharmonic-Symphony, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Columbia; 6 sides). Between this and last month's 7th (by Vladimir Golschmann and the St. Louis Symphony, for Victor), Sibelius fans will find it hard to choose. Beecham's has slightly more vitality. Golschmann's version is better recorded...