Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Thomas Beecham and the Chicago Symphony perform Haydn’s Symphony No. 102 and Mozart’s “Prague” Symphony. This concert was originally telecast on March 13, 1960:
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“The larger revelation of the transcendent gifts of Mozart is a crying need in our present condition of dubious culture and civilisation. His spirit, more than that of any other composer, is made of that stuff which can provide the most telling and efficacious antidote to the chaotic thought and action of a blatant age.”
Thomas Beecham, program note, 1937 (quoted in John Lucas, Thomas Beecham: An Obsession with Music)