Word: tuonela
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program follows: Military March No. 2 Schubert-Casella Suite "From Holberg's Time" Grieg Intermezxo from "Goyescas" Granados "Sadko," Tone Poem Rimsky-Korsakoff "Ball Scene" and "March to the Scaffold from the Fantastic Symphony Berlioz The Swan of Tuonela Sibelius "Pacific 231," Orchestral Movement Honegger Sixth Hungarian Dance Brahms Scherzo from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn Overture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky
...Francisco, Conductor Alfred Hertz led the first program of the San Francisco Symphony, chose Schumann's "First Symphony," Sibelius' "Swan of Tuonela" and Respighi's "Pines of Rome" for his first offerings. San Franciscans were well pleased, applauded especially the "Pines of Rome," new there. A phonograph record, that of a nightingale's song, was introduced for the first time, so far as is known, in a symphony orchestra...