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...Yorkers who went to Town Hall Monday night thought for a moment that they were being fooled. Programs told them that they would hear a Bach Prelude, the Chromatic Fantasio and Fugue, Beethoven's Pathétique sonata, Mendelssohn's Rondo Capricioso, six Chopin pieces. On the stage was a grand piano with a man-sized keyboard and to play it there appeared a chubby little girl who, if she had not been so self-possessed, would have looked as if she had wandered there by mistake on the way home from a children's party...
...years in Europe. And when she had flipped up her dress, wriggled up on the stool and stretched down for the pedals, the audience knew that it had not been fooled at all. Her hands could barely span an octave but they sounded chords which were rich and strong. Beethoven's Pathétique needed more sweep than she could give it. Once in the Bach her right hand was not quite sure what her left hand was doing. But in the Mendelssohn and Chopin her fingers traveled over the keys with such speed and accuracy that the audience...
...real inspiration and become a hard-headed mathematician. (His Cancrizans can be played either backwards or forwards.) But no one has denied his genius as a teacher. In Europe where he had the facilities he took his pupils into his home to live, helped them study Bach and Beethoven, then let them write the kind of music which came naturally to them. His U. S. pupils will have to go through the same fundamental training. The one thing he will not encourage is imitation Schönberg...
Edward Ballantine '07, professor of Music, will give a concert a 8 o'clock this evening in the Dunster House dining room. His program includes Brahms, Beethoven. Chopin, Bach, and Schubert...
...program of tonight's concert will consist of Beethoven's first three string quartets, Opus 18, Nos. 1, 2, and 3. The remaining concerts of the series will complete a cycle, in chronological order, of all the composer's 17 quartets. These concerts will be given on the following Thursday evenings: November 23, December 14, January 18, February 15, March 15, and April...