Word: adagio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program appears a new composition by Delaney and an adagio for violin and strings, dedicated to Malcolm H. Holmes, who will direct the program. The rest of the program: Gluck Overture to "Iphigenia in Aulis" Hindemith Funf Stucke Rosetti Symphony in G-Minor Delaney Adagio for violin and strings George K. Mateyo, soloist DeFalla Spanish Dance from "La Vida Breva...
Malcolm H. Holmes '28 will conduct the orchestra in the following program: Gluck Overture to "Iphigenia in Aulis" Hindemith Funf Stucke Rosetti Symphony in G-Minor Delancy Adagio (for violin and strings) George K. Mateyo--Soloist DeFalla Spanish Dance from "La Vida Breve...
...generally acknowledged to be the greatest. It is typical of all his works in that the religious root is all-important; and also by virtue of the close coordination of the first three movements leading to a climax in the finale. Especially notable is the beautiful adagio which gives full expression to the emotional fervour surrounding the composer's deep love for the Catholic Church. The logical successor of Beethoven from the point of view of symphonic development, he died a comparatively humble but nevertheless significant figure in the musical world...
...compared with Africa Dances. Geoffrey Gorer, 30-year-old English writer, traveled from Dakar through French West Africa to Dahomey and the Gold Coast, with Feral Benga, famed Parisian Negro dancer, who wanted to stage a Negro ballet. The travelers saw some extraordinary native dancing, including the performance of adagio dancers who danced with children and knives, throwing knives that seemed to pass through the children in midair. But most of Africa Dances is devoted to realistic appraisals of native culture, political and economic conditions, colonial administration, the heat and discomfort of the country. Among the whites Geoffrey Gorer encountered...
...most U. S. piano makers, business in recent years has been just one long C# minor adagio lamentoso. Sales, which were level at 320,000 units a year in the decade before 1925, dwindled to 25,000 in 1932, a monetary drop from $204,000,000 to $18,000,000. Obvious reason: the radio. Then began a slow upturn. U. S. piano sales last year were 44,000; this year they may reach 60,000. And last week when 2,000 people gathered in Chicago for three conventions, the National Association of Music Merchants, the National Association of Sheet Music...