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...Chopin and the Pianoforte", Professor Spaulding, Music Building...
Last week, among many notables who applauded Kreutzberg in Manhattan, were German Ambassador and Frau von Prittwitz, Playwright Noel Coward, Actress Beatrice Lillie, Singers Maria Jeritza and Mary Garden, and Mrs. Vincent Astor. They saw a young hairless-headed fellow make swift, strange pictures to music by Chopin, Scott, Wilckens, de Falla, Satie. They saw him clown with Stravinsky and go gibbering mad with Prokofieff. So enthusiastic was Ambassador Prittwitz that he took steps to arrange a recital in Washington. Dancer Kreutzberg and the bright, wispish Georgi will go thence to Chicago, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Boston...
Professor Edward Ballantine '07 of the Department of Music will give a piano recital in the Living Room of the Harvard Union at 7 o'clock tomorrow evening. In addition to playing selections from the works of Chopin, Brahms, and Wagner, Professor Ballantine will play by special request his own variations on the theme of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in the manner of ten composers. D. A. MacKinnon 3G, baritone, will render a group of songs...
...Edward Ballantine '07 of the Department of Music will render piano selections in the main living room of the Union on Sunday evening at 7 o'clock, it was announced yesterday by Davidson Summers 2L, graduate secretary of the Union. In addition to playing selections from the works of Chopin, Brahms, and Wagner, Professor Ballantine will give by special request his own variations on the theme of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in the manner of ten composers. D. A. Mackinnon 3G, baritone, will render a group of songs...
...that built about the love-story of a composer would seem to be the easiest to present and the most successful. Such, unfortunately, is not the case. The latest attempt, on the boards at the Majestic, entitled "White Lilacs," a romance with music, based on the life of Frederic Chopin, has all the failings and few of the fortes of the genre. That is to say, one does not enjoy fully either Chopin's music, or Herr Johannsen's play: the first because the music was almost wholly written for the pianoforte, not orchestra with voices, and was supposed...