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...program for the "Pops" Concert tonight follows: 1. Overture to "The Beautiful Gala-tea" Suppe 2. Waltz, "Wine, Women and Song" Strauss 3. Ave Maria Bach-Gounod (Solo violin, harp, organ and strings) 4. Dance of the Hours from "La Gicconda" Ponchielli 5. Suite Rameau-Mottl Minuet--Musette--Tambourin 6. Dubinushka Arranged by Jacchia 7. Chinese Dance Crist 8. Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner 9. Fantasia "II Trovatore" Verdi 10. Hindu Song Rimsky-Korsakoff 11. Military March Schubert-Jacchia
...Edward Elgar's Dream of Gerontius was performed with John McCormack as Gerontius. The famed Irish tenor, in a role that called for a more robust voice than his, sang creditably. On the second day, with the chorus augmented by 150 songsters from the parochial schools, was given Bach's Passion According to St. John. The chorals were excellently sung in a score which has never been popular in the U. S. On the third day, Frederick Stock, conductor of the Chicago Symphony, conducted his own Symphonic Variations-a sound, scholarly piece of uninspired craftsmanship. Florence Austral, Australian...
...inevitable without trying to do anything about it. But Dr. Davison did something about it. He announced that the day of the sophomoric ditties was at an end, and that henceforward the club would sing real music. He introduced it to the recondite mysteries of Handel, Palestrina and Bach. And, amazing as it seems, he was immediately successful. The club took on new life, and the concerts became not only dull things for loyal Harvard alumni to attend but musically important as well. Moreover, other glee clubs began to follow suit, until the old order seems in a fair...
Friday afternoon and Friday evening in Symphony Hall, the last of this season's coreerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Koussevitzky conducting. The programme embraces Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 for String Orchestra, his Adagio from the Toccata in C major. Scriabin's "Prometheus," Debussy's "Clouds" and "Festivals," and Borodin's Polootsian dances from "Prince Igor...
...Piano and Wind Orchestra. "It is," he had explained beforehand to pressmen, "quite in the style of the 17th Century." With amazing virtuosity, his quick fingers manipulated cacophonies; from the tumbled wrack of sound arose the chilled phantoms of dead melodies, smelling still of death-wraiths of Handel, Liszt, Bach, Schumann-jerked on the wires of that thundergod of ghosts, Stravinsky. So far the composer has allowed no one else to play the work in public. Listeners were astounded; critics were baffled. Said Critic Olin Downes (The New York Times) : "An amazing and electrifying development." Said Critic Lawrence Gilman...