Word: bache
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...Solomon", by Handel; and "Drake's Drun", by Coleridge-Taylor. Here an intermission will take place, after which the program will continue with Three Welsh Folk Songs; "Summer Evening", being a Finnish folk song; "The Galway Piper", being an Irish folk song; "Jesu. Joy of Man's Desiring", by Bach; and finally, Chorus from "The Gondoliers", by Sullivan...
...purposes of the organization are to present an opportunity for practical work to those who are interested in playing in an orchestra and who wish to gain intimate knowledge of the works of the better known composers. Recent programs given by the orchestra have included works of Bach, Handel, Haydn, and Byrd in addition to compositions by more modern writers such as Dvorak and Milhand...
...legs were longer. The accustomed white suit had been changed for a solemn black one. But when he played Beethoven's D Major Sonata he showed increased technical skill, broader and warmer tone, more mature style. Even more amazing was the manner in which he accomplished a hazardous Bach sonata unaccompanied. His audience cheered loudly and many who had transferred his title of "greatest wunderkind" to the startling and even younger violinist Ruggiero Ricci (TIME, Dec. 9) at once restored it to Yehudi. Prophets foresaw a Menuhin-Ricci dispute which would stir such arguments as are currently waged over...
...permitted herself to be hoisted up on a piano by Pianist Ernest Schelling and to sit, swinging her pretty legs, singing Spanish songs. Pianists José Iturbi, Harold Bauer, Josef Lhevinne, Ernest Hutcheson, Harold Samuel, John Erskine, Rudolph Ganz and Olga Samaroff formed a three-team relay for a Bach concerto. A whimsical Sinfonia Domestica, 1929, conducted by John Philip Sousa, had Pianists Bauer and Schelling pushing lawnmowers while others of equal renown played on typewriters...
...scene was dignified Carnegie Hall, the stage set like a hotel lobby with potted palms, upholstered lounges. Scattered and chatting about were some 20 of the world's greatest musicians. Conductor Walter Damrosch snoozed comfortably in an armchair until Pianist Bauer wakened him to supervise the Bach relay. Thus began an exciting evening of which the climax was the introduction of the so-called Gooschepeix Foolyphone,* an ominous engine-like instrument with coils, levers and pipes. Painstakingly oiled by celebrities in overalls, the contraption exploded after a few dismal howlings and was hung with an "Out of Order" sign...