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National Educational radio presents the fourth in a series of broadcasts of regular subscription concerts especially selected from the archives of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Recorded by the 100 man organization and its permanent home the beautiful Henry an Edsel Ford Auditorium located in Detroit's impressive riverfront Civic Center. The programs in this series are being produced by the University of Michigan broadcasting service for national educational radio. Undergrad in aid from the National Home Library Foundation. And in cooperation with management and the orchestra Committee of the symphony and the Detroit Federation of Musicians. Concerts in the series of 13 broadcasts will be conducted by Sexton elling the young Swedish musician our permanent musical director and conductor of the orchestra hall porter a musical director and conductor from one thousand fifty two to one thousand sixty two. And multiple associate conductor. Today's concert features Mischa Mischa coffee concert master of the orchestra in a performance of any opps KS Concerto Number two. The pre-coffee after the tenant key just sweet and
concludes with the Symphony Number one by sebaceous. The orchestra will be under the baton of altar pool with a pool in addition to his duties as associate conductor of the orchestra is educational director for the Detroit Symphony. Is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where he earned special honors in string quartet and ensemble and secondary honors in theory. Later he studied for four years with Maurice a professor of the Yola at the Conservatory of Paris. The money for this valued training came from Mr. Powell's job as a trombonist with Leo Reisman a popular orchestra. Who ended the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's ranks as we'll list in one thousand twenty seven. He soon built a following of enthusiastic friends and became the orchestras associate conductor who was one of the most active members of the orchestra. Each season he conducts many of the summer concerts the school 16 concerts many of the special sponsored concerts for pairs of Young People's Concerts and several of the regular series and tour concerts.
In addition to his orchestra activities Poole is professor of music on a full time basis at Wayne State University where he lectures and conducts many performances of the Wayne orchestra and the Wayne ensemble. He has appeared as guest conductor of many of the nation's great orchestras in the summer of 1059. He took the Haifa Israel orchestra on tour. He's been honored by Hadrian college Adrian Michigan with a degree Doctor of Music. The pool is chosen to open today's concert with a somewhat humorous Lieutenant key just sweet Piper coffee out composer himself once called this week likely serious or seriously light because he has commented amp way substantiated by a brief reference to the story which concerns the fact that actually there is no lieutenant. Is an imaginary character conceived by members of the Czar's court to relieve them of the amount of cement of having to inform those are that he had misread a military dispatch which used a somewhat similar word. His Majesty takes a particular interest in the Lieutenant with a very strange name. There is no way out but to create such a lieutenant with all the
incidents of a good normal rush of life to achieve his effects because you have employed a method somewhat similar to that of Mozart and his musical joke. Both works use the trite commonplace formulas of a certain type of popular music but by subtle harmonic shifts by ingenious deviations from the normal by slight distortions and exaggerations they achieve their humorous effect. The lieutenant Tejas wheat is in five sections the birth of romance teaches wedding troika and finally the burial of key jet. Members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra are now on stage and today's conductor of ultra pool is approaching the podium for the first word on today's concert. For coffee FC Lieutenant Tejas week. B. B.
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is there to keep her sleep. For work a. Concert from. Her $4 million. For. The Soloist is no stranger to concert audiences in the Detroit area. Sure Mr. Popper's one of the world's foremost concert Masters he was born in Russia and came to this country in obscurity in one thousand twenty two of the Immediately one an audition for the US on a stadium concert. And Sona Walter Damrosch heard of him. Gage Commission Office concert master for the New York Symphony Orchestra has held the position of concert master for one orchestra or another now for over 40 years. He served under They opposed to coffee in the Philadelphia Orchestra or Frederick stock with the Chicago Symphony and under Otto Toscanini in the NBC symphony. Measured off as one of the leading violin soloists of the world. He's been a guest artist with virtually all of the major symphony orchestras of the country and he has as magnificent a set of reviews as he has of rare violins. The beauty of
ski Concerto Number two in D minor which Mr. measured off is about to perform has been described by critics as the epitome of romantic musical genius expressed through the violin ranking they point out behind only the supreme masterpieces of some of the greatest composers in this area. Beethoven Brahms or Mendelsohn was described in his day as an astonishing child prodigy and one of the finest mature violinists who ever lived. The three movements of the concerto are connected and heard without applause. The opening section is marked Allegro Matarazzo a slow quiet clarinet bridge leads into the second movement marked andante drop all romance. In the composer's brilliant cadenza leads into the final Allegro Moderato bearing the subtitle A loud single gypsy style. The apology now here is for Mr Mr Croft concert master of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and also as well the Concerto Number two in D minor by raping.
The orchestra will be conducted. By Walter cool.
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Series
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Episode
Wieniawski, Prokofiev, and Sibelius, part 1
Producing Organization
University of Michigan
Contributing Organization
University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/500-jd4pq367
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Description
Episode Description
This program, the first of four parts, presents part of a concert that included performances of pieces by Wieniawski, Prokofiev, Sibelius. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Valter Poole.
Series Description
Detroit Symphony Orchestra concert series, recorded at the Ford Auditorium on the Detroit Riverfront.
Broadcast Date
1966-09-28
Topics
Music
Media type
Sound
Duration
00:26:58
Credits
Conductor: Poole, Valter
Performing Group: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Producing Organization: University of Michigan
AAPB Contributor Holdings
University of Maryland
Identifier: 66-42-4 (National Association of Educational Broadcasters)
Format: 1/4 inch audio tape
Duration: 00:27:01
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Chicago: “Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Wieniawski, Prokofiev, and Sibelius, part 1,” 1966-09-28, University of Maryland, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 23, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-500-jd4pq367.
MLA: “Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Wieniawski, Prokofiev, and Sibelius, part 1.” 1966-09-28. University of Maryland, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 23, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-500-jd4pq367>.
APA: Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Wieniawski, Prokofiev, and Sibelius, part 1. Boston, MA: University of Maryland, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-500-jd4pq367