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...surging and retreating of the three-part rhythm, and the rollicking gaiety that eddies in its midst, make one think that he was born anywhere from eighty to twenty years too late. There may have been war in 1839 between Joseph Lanner and Johann Strauss, the waltz-king and the brilliant rebel, but that war had more melody and harmony than a hundred years of our stodgy peace. At any rate, open dissension is boiling away at the very moment when Sir Philip, Superintendent of the Court of Balls, emissary of Queen Victoria, arrives in Vienna to choose the best...
...will be anything but hackneyed. That of Monday evening consists of Weber's Overture to "Der Freischutz," Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Smetana's symphonic poem "Vitava," and Wagner's Overture to "The Flying Dutchman." The Tuesday program includes Brahms' Fourth Symphony and Strauss's "Death and Transfiguration...
...Boston Symphony in giving the fifth concert in its Sanders Theatre series tonight. The program consists of Beetheven's Sixth Symphony (the Pastoral), Debussy's "Prelude a I' Apres-midi d'un Faune," "Till Eulcnspiegel's Merry Pranks," by Richard Strauss, and Professor Piston's Concerto for orchestra. Of these, the first three have already been performed this year at the concerts in Boston. The concerto by Mr. Piston, who is sometimes known as a "classicist," was composed in 1933 and was recently played by the Boston Symphony in New York. It will be remembered that the Second String Quartet...
...opened by Lazare Saminsky, who describes Mahler's "trumpeting through immense formal structures" as merely aggravating "their queer hollowiness." The mass of opinion favors Saminsky, but it is interesting to hear and judge the symphony anew, especially after having received large doses of the works of his contemporary, Richard Strauss...
...Conservatory, comes as conductor to the Boston Symphony during the next two weeks. His program for Friday and Saturday as well as Monday evening consists of Beethoven's "Overture to Leonore No. 2," "Overture for a Don Quixote" by Jean Rivier, Debussy's three symphonic sketches "La Mer", and Strauss's "Symphonia Domestica". Rivier is a modern French composer whose works have received considerable although not unusual praise in Paris during the past eight or ten years. His "Overture for a Don Quixote" is one of his latest endeavors...