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...other numbers on this evening's program will be the Prelude to "Carmen" by Bizel, the overture to Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman", "En Sourdine" by Tellam, "Finlandia", a symphonic poem composed by Sibelius, "Ave Maria" of Bach-Gounod, and Tchaikovsky's "Ouverture Solonelle", a selection from Victor Herbert's "Eileen", and a Strauss walts, "Vienna Blood...
...score. In matters musical no one can exceed Stokowski's capacity for work. Nor has anyone maintained toward music a more open mind. For, although Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Wagner have stayed his first loves, he has had time and bursts of enthusiasm for Stravinsky, Schönberg. Sibelius, Skriabin. He has been willing to experiment with a Thereminophone in his orchestra (TIME, Dec. 30), to encourage Hans Earth in his pioneering with the quarter-tone piano (TIME, March 3). His interest and energy have made him one of the world's great conductors. He may offend friends...
Tonight's program follows: Wedding March from "Le Coq d'Or" Rimsky-Korsakov Song without Words Tchaikovsky Valse triste Sibelius Overture to "La Forza del Destino" Verdi "Les Preludes." Symphonic Poem List "Pavane pour une infant definite" Ravel "Italia," Rhapsody Cassella Overture to "William Tell" Rossini Largo Bandel Ride of the Valkyries Wagner
...Concerto for Orchestra in D major Bach Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor, Opus 47 Sibelius Symphony No. 2 in D major, Opus 73 Brahms
Whatever else may come, Conductor Stokowski stepped up on the dais last for the time being. He gave them the same big music that he himself has taught them to demand-a Bach choral prelude orchestrated- by himself, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Sibelius' "Finlandia." He gave them a novelty-Roussel's Concerto, pleasant and unimportant. Philadelphians held their thumbs and waited. Stokowski is to be with them until late November, back again in late March. Able guest conductors are to be sandwiched in between- Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Bernardino Molinari, Sir Thomas Beecham, Clemens Krauss from Frankfurt...