Word: tchaikowski
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...Mozart: Symphony #29 (Cap); Stravinsky: Octet for Winds (C); Brahms: Symphony #2 (W); Boyce: Symphony #4 (D); Tchaikowski: Serenade in C major for strings...
...controversy over Tchaikowski's music currently being waged in the letter-column of the Crimson threatens to engulf us all with its colossal profundities. No doubt it will all be very instructive to some historian of the future who will see in it symptoms of a crisis between the embittered disillusionment of the century and the last thwarted survivors of the age of progress. Two years' ago I was sufficiently interested to write a column on the "Tchaikowski Question." Today, with the world tottering about my head, the strains of "Moon-Love" or "Concerto for Two" crupting from every juke...
...Huberman, and following that, on November 1, Frank Glazer, the eminent Boston pianist. The opportunity to hear Huberman is a rare and exceptional one, for Huberman has in past years been known to this country chiefly through his tremendous reputation in Europe. Those who know his recording of the Tchaikowski Violin Concerto may recall that his style in that is brilliant and flashy, pretty much on the slick side, and he seems to be the only one of the Leopold Auer brood of violinists who has developed this way. It would be interesting to compare his concert Sunday with...
...Harvard last year and is now on a fellowship at Princeton, where the Concertino was written. Professor Ballantine's by now popular and well-known Variations on "Mary Had a Little Lamb" take the familiar nursery-rhyme and cleverly bandy it about in the style of composers like Schubert, Tchaikowski, MacDowell, and Wagner...
...Tchaikowski's Second Symphony was more worth bothering about than the Mahler Symphony, although the fact that its melodies are weaker, less distinguished, and less surehanded than those of the later symphonies will probably cause its rejection. But in no way does it merit Cui's contemptuous epithets of "rough and commonplace. . . . pompous and trivial . . . neither good nor bad." It is fun to listen to, and that is more than can be said for a good deal of the stuff that is perpetrated in concert-halls today...