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Sounds Impractical. Last week, a Carnegie Hall audience got to hear just how much further tall, slender Composer Mennin had advanced. In picking his symphonic form, he had tried something that even Beethoven had never attempted until he was past 50 and had eight great symphonies to his credit. Mennin...
NBC Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Toscanini's last symphonic program of the season.
Orchestra plans for this spring include reading of various popular symphonic works, Nesbet stated. Tentative plans have been made for recordings and broadcasts over WHRV as a result of last night's successful broadcast of the Orchestra's Harvard Club concert.
Last week, Strauss's new Joseph was ready, and Max Reiter's well-drilled San Antonio Symphony Orchestra was ready to play it. Composer Strauss had done more than strain off a potpourri of the original music; he had taken six or seven of his best themes, added...
The sub-titles with "Symphonic Pastorale" are the most gratifying in a long while. One of Gide's English translators, Justin O'Brien, is credited with writing them. The omnipresent Herman Weinberg is also credited with an "American adaptation." This should please Meneken, but it puzzles me, and it might...