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Birthdays. Jean Sibelius, great Finnish composer, his 75th. Field Marshal August von Mackensen, German hero of World War I, his gist. William Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, denouncing those who would have America "become a sort of tail end of a foreign empire," his Sist. Tom Mooney, labor saint, his 58th, at St. Luke's hospital, San Francisco, where in ten months he has undergone three abdominal operations, four transfusions. William Constant Wheeler, the nation's only authentic son of the Revolution, at his South Woodbury, Vt. farmhouse, his 93rd. His father, who volunteered under Washington...
...Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major...
...Sibelius: Belshazzar's Feast (London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Robert Kajanus; Victor: 4 sides; $2.50). Incidental music to a play by Sibelius' friend Hjalmar Procopé, Finnish Minister to the U. S. Finnish Orientalism is queer, but pleasing...
This week marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the birth of Sibelius, in accord with which concert-halls and airwaves this week-end will fairly ooze Sibelius music. At Symphony Hall Friday and Saturday, Koussy is playing, all on one program, the Second, Sixth, and Seventh Symphonies. This is a great opportunity to go and hear typical works from Sibelius's early and mature periods, to observe how he develops in craftsmanship, how compact and close-textured, for example, is the Seventh Symphony alongside the diffuse Second, and how much more purified, without loss of strength, are the themes...
...across. One of these costlier numbers was This Lonely Heart, for which he hired a full symphony orchestra to weave in a bit of Tchaikovsky. Like Clifford Odets, his opposite number in the theatre, Oboler cannot work without music, makes a point of listening to recordings of Beethoven, Moussorgsky, Sibelius and Debussy before settling into the creative groove...