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It is possible that Beethoven, for all his reported genius, and for all the inspiration that overwhelms the listener to his Fifth, was near the end of his life merely a platitudinous Dr. Frank Crane of music?
Today's concert is a feature of the Music 4 program, which aims at an analytical study of symphonic masterpieces from the point of view of the listener.
Dr. Canby is small, agile, precise. He does not mince words and his opinions are expressed positively and with fervor. He talks rapidly and with clear meaning; but he is also a good listener. He has never allowed his academic knowledge to interfere with a really unusual sense of journalism...
The itinerant Wagnerian Opera Com- pany went to Manhattan and encountered a mixed reception. It opened there with Die Meistersinger. That was unfortunate. It had to meet the severest and most direct competition in the superb Meistersinger which Mr. Bodanzky conducted at the Metropolitan, one of the very finest performances...
A charming Mozart quartet, like that of Wednesday evening makes an excellent beginning--from the listener's standpoint. For the players it is not easy to "Warm up" on Mozart, and there is no more exacting test than the playing of a such a work. The parts stand out always...