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...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Handel's Water Music, Schubert's Fifth Symphony, Verdi's ballet music for Otello, waltzes from Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. Conductor: Erich Leinsdorf...
...Ninth Symphony which will long be remembered by those privileged to attend. It was not by any means a definitive performance, however. There were the usual alterations, sacrificing the composer's intentions for Koussevitzky's idea of effect, and the physical limitations of Symphony Hall's stage forced the conductor to use a smaller chorus than is ordinarily employed. But Dr. Koussevitzky's interpretation of Beethoven's masterpiece was one which for sheer beauty and noble concept will seldom be approached...
Everyone participating--conductor, orchestra, soloists, and the Harvard and Radcliffe Glee Club--were on edge for this, the final program of Koussevitzky's 25th year with the Boston Symphony. The result was an intense, sincere performance, the kind that happens on the rare occasions when an orchestra players over its head. But no such playing would have been possible without the years spent by Koussevitzky in perfecting and refining the virtuoso orchestra which he inherited in 1923 from Pierre Monteux...
Pain & Pleasure. Both Furtwängler and his fellow essayist, Swiss Conductor Ertiest Ansermet (who called his 34-page opus Musical Experience and the Modern World), had played their share of contemporary music, Furtwängler dutifully, Ansermet enthusiastically. Yet both found that conducting it, like listening to it, had sometimes been more pain than pleasure...
...Bearded Conductor Ansermet, who had introduced and championed much of the music of his friend Igor Stravinsky, seemed to agree on some of it with an early Stravinsky critic, Claude Debussy, who had said to Ansermet years ago: "You know how much I admire Petrouchka, but The Rite of Spring disturbs me. It seems to me that Stravinsky is trying to make music out of something that is not music, just like the Germans . . . tried to make breakfasts out of sawdust...