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Programmed by canny Conductor Koussevitzky between the First Symphony of Beethoven and the First Symphony of Sibelius, Composer Piston's magnum opus drew as many bravos as if it were the real meat in the sandwich. Though part of this enthusiasm may have come from a desire to see local Harvard Professor Piston make good, solemn critics were agreed that his symphony was one of the most individual and stirring works of its kind by a U. S. composer. Praised were its skillful instrumentation and the rugged climax of its final movement. Noted also was an emotional juiciness hitherto...
...after Composer Piston's symphony had its première, a much more widely heralded piece of music was broadcast by the NBC Symphony under Conductor Artur Rodzinski: Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Composer of the famed opera Lady Macbeth of Mzensk and onetime white-haired boy of Soviet music, Shostakovich had lain for two years in official outer darkness, his opera banned and his Fourth Symphony confiscated because of "Leftist" modernistic tendencies (TIME, April 4). First of his works to be O. K.'d by Moscow critics since his downfall, the Fifth Symphony...
Music. Carlos Chavez, Mexican maestro who recently succeeded Arturo Toscanini as conductor of two National Broadcasting Co. concerts-to compose music...
...Merion, Pa. last week, baldish, 62-year-old Josef Hofmann, famed concert pianist, father of a 17-month-old son, grinned when a reporter asked his opinion of 55-year-old Conductor Leopold Stokowski and Greta Garbo. Said Pianist Hofmann: "I think they make a good couple. . . . Certainly there must be some attraction. And even a great musician gets bored with notes and bars and sharps and flats...
Therefore, when Cincinnati's thick-lipped Conductor Eugene Goossens last week announced the U. S. premiere of the "finest symphony of the past 15 years," musical cognoscenti lifted their brows. Fine symphonies of the past 15 years have included two by Finland's great bald Jean Sibelius, a half-dozen by such talented Russians as Dmitri Shostakovich, Serge Prokofieff and Tykon Krennikov . Conductor Goossens' entry for the honor was the Symphony in G Minor of reticent, little-known British Composer Ernest John Moeran. Premiered before a stuffy audience in Cincinnati's Music Hall, Moeran...