Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Franck, and Chabrier, part 2

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Thank you audience. Comments are serious or. Minor. I. I kept. Running into another in the series the price of regular subscription concerts especially selected from the archives of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra produced by the University of Michigan broadcasting service for national educational radio and regret in aid from the National Home Library Foundation. Today's broadcast is being conducted by Paul parade conductor and musical director of the orchestra from one thousand fifty two to one thousand sixty two and now our conductor Ameridose. Before continuing today's concert we pause briefly for station identification. This is the national educational radio network. Pope array's professional career has been marked by a number of distinguished appointments as

conductor for eight years he was musical director and conductor of the Monte Carlo orchestra. This was prior to 930 two and only last year he conducted the same famous group of musicians during its United States tour in 1932. He succeeded the famous Gabriele PR NE as conductor of the concept cologne postie held with distinction for 20 years at the same time he entered the field of opera conducting making a Wagnerian repertoire his specialty for a was first conductor of the Paris Opera for 18 years. His role at the opera was frequently punctuated with performances of outstanding brilliance parade has continued to use accepts from the Wagnerian repertoire throughout his conducting career and it's with special interest that today's broadcast turns now to a reading of a Wagner composition pulp or a conducts the Detroit Symphony Orchestra you know performance of the previewed to be much to sing or by Wagner or. Yeah.

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Want. You to. Be Mr. Right. Frank the humble cathedral organist and private music teacher never enjoyed the plaudits of the concert halls seldom the acclaim of the day's more popular composers and performing musicians for the most part it was largely due to the efforts of his students especially dandy and show songs that many of his works were publicly performed at all. Even then the audiences were small. Their reactions reserved shall go NO as the man of the musical hour in Paris and all else polled before him. Well this might be rationalized in one way or another but even the composer's wife at times became

indifferent to her husband's creations. She flatly refused to attend the first performance of the symphonic point psyche and two years later when upon the insistence of a granddaughter she did reluctantly agree to attend a performance she got as far as the box office. Reconsider her position and returned home without hearing the work. The premier performance March 10th one thousand eighty eight was marked by the coolness which had become a norm for Frank's works at their first appearance although the composition is marked by certain deviations from the style usually attributed to the composer this is not the reason why performances are infrequent in our time. In all probability this is due to the fact that the work requires a rather large chorus the chorus which curiously enough does not require any bass voices. Much of the orchestral music of psyche is regularly performed as a concert suite however operate now conducts the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in a performance of the concert suite psyche by SES off from.