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...thunder & lightning raging outside his window and fell back dead on his bed, his Ninth (last) Symphony was given its first performance in Vienna. Beethoven, a homely, dumpy, shaggy-headed little figure, stood in the orchestra, eyes fixed on his score, awkwardly beating time. He was not the official conductor. The players had been instructed to pay him no attention. He was so deaf by that time that he could hear nothing of the great, surging music called for by the pinny, almost illegible little notes he had made. He did not sense the applause which came afterwards until...
...first of the "Pops" concerts, held every spring in Symphony Hall, which have found considerable popularity among Harvard students ever since their inception, will be held this evening at 8.30 o'clock, under the baton of Arthur Fiedler, veteran "Pops" conductor...
...start was even. Conductor Serge Koussevitzky came out on Boston's Symphony Hall stage last week at precisely the same moment that Leopold Stokowski appeared on the Philadelphia Academy of Music stage. Koussevitzky's entrance was dignified, unflurried. Stokowski fairly flew from the wings. But then Stokowski had a longer first lap. He had the gloomy Fourth Symphony of Finnish Jan Sibelius to get through with, whereas Koussevitzky had only a trifling piece by Corsican Henri Martelli. Stokowski's pace was brisk but with odds so against him it was not surprising that Koussevitzky was ready first...
...profundity than at setting in relief the pianist's virtuosity." Just the same he could not get his Concerto finished last year. It took him two years to write it, working ten and twelve hours a day. When it was done, his contract with Koussevitzky was already broken. Conductor Stokowski was also a potent leader with a penchant for doing "first times." What could be more diplomatic than to have both conductors present the Concerto simultaneously...
...Woodworth, who will wield the baton in this presentation was the joint conductor, with Dr. A. T. Davison '05, of the Harvard Glee Club in its concert in honor of Gustav Holst...