Word: sibelius
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...week, Mr. Kraska announces a magnificent innovation in theatre fare. Once every day, including Sunday. at 12.30 o'clock, preceding the first show, concerts will be presented in their entirety, recorded by artists of distinction. This first program is dedicated to Dr. Serge Koussevitzky, whose brilliant rendering of the Sibelius Symphony No. 2 in D Major opens the series...
...very fine artists are also to be heard this week. Tomorrow evening in Jordan Hall, Povla Frijsh, famous Danish soprano, is giving a long and varied program which bids fair to be something quite out of the ordinary and well worth hearing. Songs by Schubert, Grieg, Moussorgsky, Debussy, Sibelius, and Ravel are included in the imposing list which gives one every reason to believe that the superlatives which she earned in her New York reviews were more than justified. The other artist is Mischa Elman, noted violinist...
...Thursday evening Dr. Koussevitsky will lead the Boston Symphony at Sanders Theater in Cambridge. The program is to embrace two Bach preludes arranged by Pick-Managiagalli; Edward Burlingame Hill's "Lilacs"; "Pohjola's Daughter" the colorful symphonic Fantasia by Jan Sibelius, and in conclusion the Second Symphony in D major of Johannes Brahms. Thursday evening will also offer a duet recital at Jordan Hall by Eleanor Steele, soprano and Hall Clovis, tenor. The program will include well known songs of Schubert and Schumann...
...Even more moving was Der Tod und das Mädchen, in which she made a sustained low D seem incidental to the horror of the dying girl, the call of Death itself. Thereafter came an aria from Verdi's Don Carlos, made vivid by canny restraint. With Sibelius' Die Libelle she proved that she could trill. After spirituals the audience clamored for encores for a good half hour, until the hall's lights were dimmed and the curtains finally closed. Most singers are all too eager to capitalize on a sure-fire success...
...Sibelius was so besieged by well-wishers last week that he had his telephone disconnected. He went into Helsinki for his birthday concert attended by 8,000 adoring Finns and the Premiers of Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. His surprise of the week came when he heard the result of the New York Philharmonic's recent radio poll. Sibelius attracted little attention when he visited the U. S. in 1914. Today U. S. music-lovers have voted him the most popular of all living composers...