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Also on the program is Dvorak's Violin Concerto with Ruth Posselt, a local artist who has been acquiring quite a reputation, as soloist. The closing number will be Schumann's Fourth Symphony in D minor, composed in 1841 and revised and renumbered...
...onto the Stokowski throne and in a determined, businesslike manner commanded attention for two Bach transcriptions, arranged by Lucien Cailliet, a jolly bespectacled Frenchman, known by Philadelphians as one of their regular clarinetists. After Cailliet's Bach came Mozart's Fourth Violin Concerto with Fritz Kreisler as soloist, forerunning such headliners as Josef Hofmann, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Kirsten Flagstad, Vladimir Horowitz, Mischa Levitzki, Jascha Heifetz, Lawrence Tibbett, Artur Schnabel, all sure bait for customers not altogether sure of a youthful new conductor. Fritz Kreisler's spell was sure, while Ormandy kept courteously to the background...
...Overture to "Oberon" Weber Two Jazz Studies Hill (First performance in the orchestral-version) *Suite from "The Damnation of Faust" Berlioz Minuet of the Will-o-the -wisps-Ballet of the Sylphs-Rakocsy March "Pirates Island" Mabel W. Daniels Recitative and Air of Azael, from "L'Enfant Prodigue" Debussy Soloist: Elizabeth Beaman, Soprano Divertissement Ibert *"Selection, "The Gondoliers" Sullivan *"Artists' Life," Waltzes Strauss *"Prelude to "Carmen" Bizet...
...programs for the remainder of this week contain the usual diversions. As is customary, Sunday evening is devoted to more serious numbers and this week, there is to be a Schubert-Tchaikovsky-Wagner program with Elizabeth Travis as soloist in Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. Surely, this is an occasion which romantically-minded souls should not miss. Monday evenings is gypsy night -- for the benefit, oddly enough, of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. The members of this worthy institution must have a craving for this type of music for every number on the program has a authentic gypsy flavor. Possibly...
...Tuesday, Dai Buell is to be soloist in the Liszt Concerto for pianforte No. 1 in E flat major. Sibelius's symphonic poem, "Finlandia", will also be played...