Re: Weingartner and Royal Philharmonic concerts
- From: Dontaitchicago@xxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:59:04 -0800 (PST)
On Jan 31, 2:39�pm, "Matthew�B.�Tepper" <oy�@earthlink.net> wrote:
Dontaitchic...@xxxxxxx appears to have caused the following letters to be
typed in news:ea5bca1b-ac64-4c8a-afdf-53b9e6ac0203
@f47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com:
� When I posted something yesterday about the Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra, Matthew asked about Royal Phil. Society concerts conducted
by Felix Weingartner. I promised to reply.
Thanks very much for the follow-through!
March 19, 1925
� Berlioz: King Lear Overture
� Purcell: Dido's Lament;
� Ravel: Kaddish;
� Falla: Cancion del Amor Dolido (Jeanne Jouve, vocalist)
� Holst: The Planets: Mars; Saturn; Uranus
� Beethoven: Symphony no. 8
I gasp in amazement. �Or as today's younger folks would say, O M G!
February 27, 1940
� Mozart: Symphony no. 39
� Brahms: Haydn Variations
� Beethoven: Symphony no. 7
IIRC, his final recording sessions were just two days later, Beethoven "Ruins
of Athens" Overture and Brahms "Academic Festival" Overture, with the LSO.
I'm sure you're correct.
Yes, that 3/19/25 program! O M G indeed. Or as one of the most
important people ever in my life quoted one of her subordinates at
work as saying, "I was fiberglasted!"
D. T.
.
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