Word: chromaticisms
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Die Gluckliche Hand. Nerves were so atingle from the sheer physical force of Le Sacre that when the brief perform-ance was over many had almost forgotten Die Glückliche Hand, the curtain raiser. Yet like the Sacre the Schönberg piece can be counted as experimental music...
?Pronounced "kareeong." President Coolidge Americanized it phonetically, said "karilon." A carillon differs from a chime principally in that its bells do not swing, and that they are tuned to a chromatic scale. A carillon is played on a keyboard like a piano but the carilloneur strikes the keys with...
The program is as follows: Chromatic Fantasie and Fugue Bach Sonata in A-flat major, op. 26 Beethoven Andante con Variazione Scherzo March Fannebre sulla Morte d'un Eroe Rondo. After an intermission he will play: Two Etudes, Op. 25 Chopin No. 7, C sharp minor No. 9, G flat...
George Eastman whose perfection, in 1884, of the first practical roll film made the $1,500,000,000 motion picture industry possible, still lives at Rochester, N. Y., busy industrial city at the falls of the Genesee River. At 72, he has given away more than $58,000,000 -to...
Last week in Manhattan, a dubious audience strained expectant ears, saw musical instruments, were invited to hear musical tones, which most of them had never dreamed existed. On the stage of Carnegie Hall, Leopold Stokowski, able conductor, master of the unexpected, stood in command before the Philadelphia Orchestra, presented Julian...