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...half his life Composer Jean Sibelius has been treated like a national hero in his native Finland. The Finnish Government has long subsidized him so that he could give all his time to writing music. Fellow Finns cheer him whenever he appears in public, never let his birthday pass without doing him some honor. Partly because his best works seem at first forbidding, partly because he has chosen to spend most of his life quietly at home, Sibelius has been slow to gain a worldwide recognition. This week when the big, bald Finn was 70, that recognition...
...pieces by Ravel. The complete program is as follows: Overture to lphigenia in Aulis by Gluck-Wagner, Musik zu einem Ritterballet by Beethoven, Deux Chansons by Ravel-Holmes, Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 in C Major, a Piano Group, played by Mr. Leonard Bernstein '39, Valse Triste by Sibelius, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Mozart, and Danse Espagnole by de Falla...
Under the direction of Dr. Serge Koussevitzky, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will give a concert in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock tonight. The program includes Mozart's Symphony in E Flat Major, Dukas' "La Peri," and the Symphony No. 2 in D Major by Sibelius...
...some tunes new to the hymnal. Against strong opposition, the commission voted to include Auld Lang Syne and the famed Irish Londonderry Air for hymns beginning It singeth low in every heart and Above the hills of time the Cross is gleaming. The broad, soaring principal theme of Jan Sibelius' tone poem Finlandia has been reharmonized, paired with a 16th Century lyric...
...Sergei Koussevitzky, who is returning to America after opening the Sibelius Festival in Helsingfors, Finland, will begin his twelfth season with the Boston Symphony Orchestra as he opens the Friday afternoon Saturday evening series on October 11 and 12. The Monday evening series of six concerts will open on October 28, and the Tuesday afternoon series on November 5. The concerts under the auspices of Harvard University will be played in Sanders Theatre as usual, commencing on October...