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Composer Weill and Librettist Bertolt Brecht are both 30-three years older than Hero Lindbergh. Weill, a pupil of Busoni, a follower of Debussy, Schönberg and Hindemith, is a prolific young man. In 1926 his Royal Palace was a sensation at the Berlin Opera. The Protagonist and The Czar Allows Himself to Be Photographed are recent one-act operas based on books by Georg Kaiser. Brecht, called "the German Kipling," is best known for his Die Hauspostille, a book of realistic ballads. The Lindbergh Flight will be broadcast when performed. Friends of the flyer say he will certainly...
...some years since Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni, Italian master-pianist and modernist, startled the musical intelligenzia by advocating an entirely new musical scale. It was to be composed of quarter-tones, the pitch of each two adjacent tones being only half of what it is on a piano. It was then already noted that music played on a quarter-tone piano would only sound "out of tune"-and that this would be no novelty at all. Quarter-tone effects, it was added, were achieved by every Hawaiian guitar-player when he executed that lugubrious wailing slide along his seductively twanging strings...
...world's greatest pianist, that beside him the other virtuosos of the instrument of keys and hammers were sorry fellows. He likewise essayed the unusual thing of giving his critical rating of his fellow artists-Paderewski a good pianist but not a great one; likewise Busoni and Rosenthal; Godowsky a good technician; Rachmaninoff a third rater; Josef Hofmann not a great pianist, although he plays well at times. These divertissements were laid to the man's natural peculiarities, those peculiarities which lead him to make apostrophic speeches while he plays a sonata in concert. Actually, however, they were...
Under the auspices of the Divison of Music, Mr. Ralph Lawton will give a pianoforte racital in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Music Building, tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock. He will present the following program: Organ Toccats and Furgue in D-minor, Bach-Busoni Rondo in G major, Beethoven Sonats in F minor, Brahms Balade(in the form of a theme with variations), Greig "By the Seashore," Smetana La Cathedrale engloutic, Debussy Poissons d'or, Debussy Prelude in A minor, Debussy La Nutt, Glazounow La Campanella, Paganini-Liszt
...hoped that this will be an entirely successful season. The announcement of the Boston season includes the names of some of the most distinguished musicians that the profession affords. The soloists will be Mesdames Julia Culp, Elena Gerhardt, Florence Hinkle; and Messrs Pasquale Amato, Harold Bauer, Leonard Borwick, Ferrucio Busoni, Osip Gabrilowitsch, Frizt Kreisler, Jacques Thiband and Anton Witek...