Word: cadenzaed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surprise. Once a breeze ruffled the music. Unruffled himself, Pianist Erskine caught the sheets and proceeded without a hitch. Once, to the dismay of the accompanying violins, the piano made an unexpected departure from the score, necessitating a momentary halt. "My fault," apologized the professor gravely, and resumed the cadenza. Prolonged applause honored this coolness as much as the technical skill, but loud cries of "Encore, Erskine!" did not distract the whimsical professor from his next business of moment-smoking a backstage cigaret...
...Conductor Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra, sank his fingers into the keyboard. They heard Rachmaninov's dense symphonic thunders rendered to the last chord, and they shook their heads. Definitely, it was a disappointment. There had been moments-in the adagio, in the arpeggiated chords of the cadenza-when the sustaining power of the instrument was evident. For the rest they did not know whether to felicitate Mr. Hammond on his invention or berate Pianist Donahue for what had sounded like miserable pedaling...