Word: toccatas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Broker Dennis advocated severe penalties for radio stations permitting such swing raids. Immediate cause of this protest was a broadcast swing version of Bach's D Minor Toccata. Scolded indignant Mr. Dennis: "By no stretch of the imagination could such performances be tolerated except by people of no discrimination. If this is permitted to go unchallenged, swing renditions of the Mass in B Minor will follow...
Also included on the program are Strauss's "Till Eulenspiegel," a Shostakovich Symphony (Op. 10), and Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, arranged for orchestra by Leo Weiner...
Three works by modern Italian composers are also to be played: a "Prelude Glocosco" by Castagnone, Respighi's Toccata for Piano and Orchestra in which Mr. Mitropoulos will be the soloist, and the Second Suite from Alfredo Casella's opera, "La Donna Serpente...
Richard Burgin, assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony, is to lead the orchestra in its regular Friday and Saturday concerts. The program, which is the same as that played last night in Sanders Theatre, consists of Bach's Toccata in C major for Organ orchestrated by Leo Weiner, the Symphony No. 1 in G minor by Basil Kalinnikov, and Hindemith's "Mathis der Mahler." Kalinnikov was a Russian composer of the Moscow School who died in 1900, leaving only a few works behind him. "Mathis der Mahler" ("Matthias the Painter") is a so-called symphony consisting of three movements written...
Tonight in Sanders Theatre the State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Thiede is to present a program consisting of three numbers by Bach (Choral Prelude from "The Little Organ Book", Fantasy and Fugue in G minor, Toccata and Fugue in D minor), Mozart's A major Violin Concerto, and Wotan's Farewell and the Fire Music from "Die Walkure". On Monday night in Jordan Hall, the Orchestra of the New England Conservatory of Music is to perform the prelude to John Knowles Paine's "Oedipus Tyrannus", three excerpts from John Alden Carpenter's "Adventures in a Perambulator", and other interesting...