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Robert W. Flint

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THE MUSIC BOX

If the majority of music critics today fill their columns with superficial talk about conductors and soloists, it means that

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For the sake of expectant posterity, especially that Soc. major of 2043 writing his thesis on those quaint old days

THE MUSIC BOX

The Pierian almost always plays ambitions programs, but tonight's is head and shoulders over their Cambridge concerts of recent years.

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Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, and so, to a qualified extent, hath the Radcliffe Choral Society. Tonight,

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The supposed antipathy of the highbrow "classicists" to all forms of popular music is a strangely persistent myth that keeps

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Quartet recording in past years has often been a slip-shod business. Victor especially seems contented just to get the sound

THE MUSIC BOX

Most critics agree that, so far, the arts have failed to measure up to the challenge of total war. The

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The eternally baffling question for music critics (who, all popular prejudices aside, really like music and wish it well) is

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The late Felix Weingartner was the last of a generation of European super-conductors, and his recent death means the end

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Yesterday's radio performance of Dmitri Shostakovitch's Seventh Symphony had every prospect of being one of the greatest occasions in musical

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The short but fairly penetrating essay entitled "The Emotional Essence of Brahms," written by none other than Dr. Koussevitzky, which

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I ran across recently a notice advertising a jazzed-up version of Beethoven's Fifth symphony,--"Beethoven's liveliest symphony, with victory emphasized throughout"--and

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Once a year in the spring, the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral society, and the Boston Symphony pool their

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The Metropolitan opera is back in Boston till the end of the week, and provoking, besides enthusiasm for its generally

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Victor spells it "Szostakowicz," Columbia "Shastakowitch," and to the general public it means some of the best music to come

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