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Lorca's Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias, translated in this volume, has no equal among modern elegies for directness in the vision of death and for symphonic magnificence of form. Mejias was a torero, an Andalusian and friend of Lorca's, who died after a goring :
Franck: Symphonic Variations (Eileen Joyce, pianist, with 1'Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, Charles Münch conducting; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 4 sides). Few could excel Walter Gieseking's fine performance of this popular work; Miss Joyce didn'...
The oldest symphonic group in continuous existence anywhere in the United States, the orchestra also plans to carry on with the plan it initiated last year of playing for the first time anywhere now student compositions.
The only complaint here, can be on what is left out. Omissions include not only specific pieces of importance, but also the philosophy behind them. Schumann's work follows a unique pattern of development which is extremely important for a comprehension of his ideas. Opus numbers 1-22 are all...
NBC Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, Strauss's love scene from Feuers-not, Handel-Elgar's Overture in D Minor, the Andante Cantabile from Tchaikovsky's String Quartet in D Major. Conductor: Frank Black.