Word: brahms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, the special nature of brass technique requires a special type of writing by composers. Skillful handling, as in the bombastic theme near the end of Strauss's Don Juan and in the rich romantic treatment of Brahm's Fourth Symphony (which will be played this week) exploits the qualities of power and sonority which make the brass so valuable in the modern orchestra...
Silvermine Festival (Sun. 8:45 p.m., CBS). New York's Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Philadelphia's Eugene Ormandy, plays Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Johannes Brahm's Variations on a Theme of Haydn at Connecticut's No. 1 music festival. Soloists : Soprano Anna Kaskas, Contralto Rosa Tentoni, Tenor Chase Baromeo, Baritone Edouard Grobe...
...works the musicians hope to read include: Cesar Franck's D-Minor Symphony, Haydn's Surprise Symphony, Brahm's Second Symphony, Mozart's Overture to The Magic Flute and his Serenade in D, a Frescobaldi Fugue in G-Minor arranged by Mr. Holmes, and Bach's prelude and Fugue in B Flat Minor from the Well-Tempered Clavichord, arranged by R. U. Jameson '30, a former Pierian Manager...
...week-end concerts in town include this same MacDowell concerto as well as a Suite in D major by the American composer. Arthur Foote '74, and Brahm's Fourth Symphony. Mr. Foote has for many years been closely connected with the music here at Harvard and has written several textbooks which are in use in the department. He has been composing all his life, and this Suite in E major is one of his more recent productions. Of the magnificent Brahms Symphony, little need be said except "Don't miss it!" During the holidays, the regular Friday and Saturday concerts...
Professor Ballantine will play a group of short selections composed of: Brahm's Rhapsody in E flat, and two compositions by Debussy entitled: Et la Lune Descend sur le Temple qui fut, and Jardin sous la Pluie...