Word: sinfonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sinfonia from the Christmas Oratorio of J. S. Bach (Fri. 2:30 p.m. Mutual) rendered by the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat Major (Albert Spalding, violinist, William Primrose, violist. New Friends of Music Orchestra conducted by Fritz Stiedry; Victor; 7 sides). Major but rarely played Mozart, in a fine performance...
...Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat Major (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski, with Oboist Marcel Tabuteau, Clarinetist Bernard Portnoy, Bassoonist Sol Schoenbach, Hornist Mason Jones; Victor; 8 sides; $4.50). A sweet, 18th-Century woodwind "bash" (jam session), spotlighting the pure purlings and tootlings of Philadelphia's high-priced soloists...
Mitropoulos wowed his first Manhattan audience by performing, from memory and without baton, a tough and little-played work, Richard Strauss's Sinfonia Domestica - 45 minutes of sound representing a particularly lurid day in the Strauss family. Mitropoulos wowed his orchestra too, although some of them resented having to work hard for a change...