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...conductor of the Estonian State Symphony Orchestra until his emigration to the United States last year, has exuberance and knowhow with German, Estonian and Russian music. One looks forward to hearing how he fares with the Mozart or Haydn symphonies after this program of Brahms' Academic Festival Overture, Eduard Tubin's Tenth Symphony and Dmitri Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony...
...Tubin's Tenth, written in Stockholm in 1973, rollicks and lilts. It provides a smooth connection between Brahms' parody of German schoolboys' drinking songs and Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, which, its composer wrote, captures the Russian alcoholic soul. Tubin, born in Kallaste, Estonia in 1905, moved to Sweden in 1944, after studying with Kodaly in Budapest and Heino Eller in Tartu. The symphony is in one big movement, and the melodies are folksy, recalling Bartok in rhythm and structure. Syncopation and dotted notes, along with the rolling figures in the strings, give the piece a gypsy personality. Just as enticing...
Those who don't have an ear for music will be able to remember a line in the moderato of the Shostakovich that sounds just like the theme from Million Dollar Movie. The Tubin, similarly, contains rhapsodic, whistling tunes of the Bohemian life. And Gaudeamus Igitur--well, a trip to the Hasty Pudding might be just as good...
...trio whose voices ring strong and bright against vivid instrumentation. Lead Vocalist Jeff Arthur, a Florida orange-juice tenor, wrote all or part of six cuts, including the ten der ballad That's the Time I Miss You Most of All. A blowsy sweet country rocker, Tubin', shows skillful commercial production...
Genevieve Tobin and Reginald Denny are a rich couple who find patronage of the arts a convenient avenue to amorous adventure. Denny promotes Gambarelli. Tubin, to get even, sends Martini to study song in Paris. By the time she joins him here his tendency to regard their friend ship as platonic is fortified by his interest in a dance pupil, Anita Louise. He does not know that his debut at the Opera-Comique has only been made possible because Tobin bought out the house later finds this is so, and fails in his perform ance. He is back...