Word: concert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Myra Hess, the renowned English planist, is to give her annual Boston concert in Jordan Hall on Sunday afternoon. Her interpretation of music is absolutely unique, and through a simple and unaffected approach to every piece in her repertoire, she succeeds in creating a musical atmosphere in which humility is superbly blended with a complete understanding. Many a pianist surpasses her in sheer ability and virtuosity, but few can hope to give such complete satisfaction to their audiences...
...Houses of the University. 3.00 P.M. Parade to Soldiers Field; Exhibition Football Practice. 7.00 P.M. Dinners for Undergraduates and their Guests in the Houses. 9.00 P.M. Illumination of the River Front; Fireworks and Music. 9.30 P.M. Formation of Torchlight Procession; March to Memorial Hall Delta. 10.00 P.M. Pop Concert, Dancing in Memorial Hall. September 18 10.00 A.M. Participation in Tercentenary Exercises. 1.00 P.M. Luncheon. 2.30 P.M. Participation in the Tercentenary Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. 7.00 P.M. Tercentenary Dinner for Undergraduate Delegates and their Hosts...
...want to play in public. Marjorie Edwards was well above the average. She exhibited a real flair for the violin, fast-flying fingers that found the notes surely, an earnest sensitive approach to the music she played. Even so, finicky critics refused to pronounce her ripe for a concert career. The quality of her tone was often small and immature, best suited to the soft feathery Cuckoo which delighted her audience so much that she had to play it twice...
...Philadelphia this winter the most amazing young musician has been Hilda Margot Betty Ros, a 10-year-old, olive-skinned Cuban, chosen by Conductor Leopold Stokowski to play the Mozart E Flat Concerto at his first Children's Concert. The Mozart concerto demands a sensitive hairline delicacy, particularly suited to young Margot's style of playing. With the praise she received, the Cuban prodigy could have gone on to make flashy headlines. Instead, she stuck to her studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, lives in one room with her mother, father, two sisters. A subsidy from...
...prodigy crop seemed to be Felix Abcede, 9, a chubby, black-haired Filipino who played last December in the Philharmonic auditorium, created such a furor that he was perched on a chair to receive autograph hounds. Young Felix was scheduled to play in San Francisco soon afterwards. That concert never came off because his parents were at odds and his teacher raised a fracas. Victim was the boy violinist, a pawn now involved in a bitter legal controversy. Often he has been told that he is greater than Heifetz or Kreisler...