Word: vivaldi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program: Vivaldi Concerto with organ Josten "The Jungle", symphonic poem Tschaikowsky Symphony No. 6, "Pathetic...
This evening Dr. Koussevitsky presents two tried and true numbers, and the first performance of a symphonic poem. The Vivaldi concerto is a number for orchestra with organ, and is of historical interest as the first composition conducted by Dr. Koussevitsky in Boston...
...villa in Switzerland (with its five subcellars), learned that he had held seance with Conductor Arturo Toscanini at Lake Como, discussed with him plans for the Philharmonic's 86th season.† Next Night. " Opening concerts," said the Philharmonic program, "Nos. 2189 and 2190"; and proceeded to list a Vivaldi concerto, a Rieti concerto, Ferroud's "Foules" and Beethoven's Second Symphony. A great audience, eager to be pleased, found the Vivaldi pleasant; the Rieti clever, inconsequential; the Ferroud noisy, tiresome as the crowds he pictured; the compound undistinguished. Applause, highly in order at the season...
Arturo Toscanini, famed Italian now functioning as guest leader of the New York Philharmonic, conducted his third program in Carnegie Hall, honored Vivaldi, Beethoven, De Sabata, and Stravinsky with his reading of their works. De Sabata, an Italian "modern," was represented by "Gethsemane," a symphonic poem, vague, impressionistic-night in a lonely garden, a stern voice breaking through the darkness to speak the awful law of redemption through renunciation; dawn, stillness, prayer; carefully explained but shallow, unoriginal music for which even the philanthropic genius of a Toscanini could not achieve distinction. But a great public on its knees...
...Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin and orchestra in A minor...