Word: symphonist
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...symphony is a long composition in three or four separate movements written for a large orchestra. But not every orchestral composition in three or four movements is a symphony. Nearly any composer can string a few movements together like the acts in a vaudeville show. But a real symphonist must build his movements like the acts of a drama, make each one lead to the next, bring down his final curtain on an impressive climax. The great symphonists of any generation can be counted on the fingers of one hand...
Richard Wagner can hardly be called a light composer, and Gustav Mahler is certainly about as weighty a symphonist as it is possible to find. The combination of the works of these two men into this week's concerts by the Boston Symphony is therefore somewhat ever-powering...
...criticized First Symphony of Gustav Mahler will be played at this week's symphony concerts for the first time in many years, Dmitri Mitropoulos, the guest conductor, apparently considering it worthy of a new hearing in Boston. Mahler, late nineteenth and early twentieth century symphonist of strong dramatic tendencies, has been called a giant of composition by his champion, the Bruckner Society. The other side of the question has been 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...
Arthur Fiedler conceived and accomplished the Esplanade concerts himself. His is a new name to nationwide concertgoers, but his musical lineage is a proud one. He was born 35 years ago in Boston, the son of Boston Symphonist Emmanuel Fiedler, who played second violin in the famed Kneisel Quartet. Fiddler Fiedler named his boy after the late great violinist Artur Nikisch, onetime Boston Symphony conductor. Aged 6, the boy studied violin with his father, piano with his mother. Later he went to Boston Latin School and studied piano with Carl Lamson, longtime accompanist to Fritz Kreisler...