Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Beethoven, Strauss, Cohn, and Brahms, part 3

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You're listening to the ninth in a series of broadcasts of regular subscription concerts especially selected from the archives of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra but used by the University of Michigan broadcasting service for national educational radio and read write in aid from the National Home Library Foundation. Today's broadcast is being conducted by Paul Pillar a conductor emeritus of the orchestra. The program is coming to you from the Henry and it's a Ford Auditorium in the Detroit Civic Center. No one is Brahms unlike Mozart and Beethoven did not rush into the task of composing his first symphony. Mozart was scarcely more than a child when his first work in this form appeared. And Beethoven was only in his 20s. But Brahms was forty three years old when he presented his first symphony to the world. Brahms once wrote to a friend I shall never compose a symphony. You have no conception of how the likes of us feel when we hear the tramp of a giant like Beethoven behind us. Incidentally seventy six years I lapsed between the time of the writing of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

and the creation of the first symphony by Brahms Brahms a still felt the impact Beethoven had made upon the musical world with that monumental night. The Brahms first symphony as in the conventional form movement formed the first movement is marked with vocals last a new toe Allegro. Followed by the Andante as ostinato. The third movement is a M'POKO I like that I got zero So in conclusion the fourth movement is adagio Allegro non troppo Mach 1 breal. Over a now conducts the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in a performance of the Symphony Number one in C Minor Opus 68 by Johann Astaroth. A.