Pre-intermission break from MPR's first live broadcast of the Minnesota Orchestra, October 7, 1971. As the orchestra finishes "The Flying Dutchman" conducted by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, MPR’s Arthur Hoehn speaks in the interval before it begins William Schuman's Symphony No. 3.
Audio from highlight CD created in October 2010 when Hoehn was inducted into Museum of Broadcasting Hall of Fame.
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SPEAKER: Stanislaw Skrowaczewski has conducted a performance of the overture to The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner. The opening work of this evening's concert by the Minnesota Orchestra inaugurating the orchestra's 69th season. Mr. Skrowaczewski has now returned to the center of the stage here at the I.A. O'Shaughnessy Auditorium on the campus of the College of St. Catherine, has asked the members of the audience-- the orchestra whether to accept the applause of this audience. Now in just a few moments, we will be hearing a performance of the Symphony No. 3 by William Schuman.
Mr. Schumann was born in New York City, August 4, 1910, and now resides there. The third symphony was premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Serge Koussevitzky on October 18, 1941. Abandoning the models of the classical symphonists, Schuman presents his Symphony No 3 as a gallery of contrapuntal forms common to the age of Bach and Handel.
The work is cast in two movements of two parts each, a passacaglia and fugue. And the second movement, a chorale and toccata. The score now 30 years old is linear in concept, lusty in tone, and eminently characteristic of this American symphonist.
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SPEAKER: Mr. Schuman is the president of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. And as we mentioned at the outset, he will be a guest at intermission on this stereo broadcast concert. Now Stanislaw Skrowaczewski returns to the podium to conduct the Minnesota Orchestra in the third symphony by William Schuman.
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