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...office employes, an advertisement was published six days before the concert to say that all seats in Carnegie Hall were sold. During the day Yehudi received 150 telegrams and a new projector for his cinema camera. In the evening he played Mozart with rare grace and delicacy. His Bach, without accompaniment, was exuberant and sure. A new sonata by Rumanian Georges Enesco had a true gypsy flair. Said Critic William J. Henderson in the New York Sun: "He plays not like a boy but like a man. . . . One can unhesitatingly say that he is already one of the violinists whose...
About 60 men will sing in each concert but no programs for any of these engagements have been released. Bach's Mass in B Minor will be given by the Glee Club and the Choral Society on Sunday, May 5, and the same organizations will present Handel's "Solomon" on Tuesday, April 30. Both concerts will be given in Symphony Hall with the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...successive days last week the ghost of Johann Sebastian Bach hovered in the wings of Manhattan's Town Hall. To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the great composer's birth, Pianist Harold Samuel gave six Bach programs which, added together, took more than twelve hours. When the marathon was ended no member of the audience questioned Samuel's reputation as the prime interpreter of Bach's piano music. The 55-year-old Briton set about his task modestly, unaffectedly. At the piano he made a bulky unimpressive figure, seemed all forehead and shirt front...
Three recitals by distinguished artists are to be heard in Boston during the next few weeks. Albert Spalding, the noted violinist, is presenting at Jordan Hall on Saturday afternoon, January 19, a program consisting of selections from both old and new composers, a range from Bach to Ravel. On Sunday afternoon, January 20, Arthur Schnabel, eminent pianist, is to be heard at Symphony Hall playing sonatas of Schubert, Mozart, and Becthoven. The Dutch pianist, Jan Smeterlin will appear on Friday evening, February 1, at Jordan Hall...
After Le Sacre not even his friends attempted to prophesy what Stravinsky would do next. But nothing could have surprised them so much as when he suddenly turned his back on vivid picture-music, announced a "return to Bach." Whether or not the placid Kapellmeister would have recognized Stravinsky as a colleague is a matter of grave dispute. Harsh critics say that Stravinsky changed his style because his rich ideas were spent. But modernists have continued to watch him closely, for even in his "classicism" his rules have been his own. He wrote Les Noces for percussion, pianos and chorus...