Leader, Leonard Hirsch
Conductor, Eric Fogg
Henry Hoist (violin)
Kurt Atterberg , an eminent Swedish composer and conductor, was born at Gothenburg in 1887. He began his career as an engineer in the Patent Office, but later gave up this post to become music critic of the Stockholm* Tidningen, and greatly added to his reputation as conductor of the Stockholm Orchestra. Later he became Prtsident of the Swedish Society of Composers. His compositions include several symphonies, symphonic poems, concertos, theatre music, and an opera, Fanal, which listeners may remember was relayed from Sweden in 1937.
Serge Prokofiev is considered one of the leading contemporary composers of Russia, and in his numerous works, such as the opera The Love for Three Oranges, he has shown himself to be a master technician and a composer of great individuality. His Classical Symphony, however,
. riit really representative of his style. It was composed in the spirit of a jeu d'esprit which, as its title would suggest, both in form and in idiom harks back to the time of Haydn and Mozart. The music is clear-cut, full of straightforward melodies and tunes, and provides a most attractive glimpse of the eighteenth century through modem eyes.