Word: concert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program for to-night's concert in the Sanders Theatre Series is full of originality, and should be especially interesting to Harvard men, The Boston Symphony Orchestra will play works by Haydn, Loeffler, and Piston. Beethoven's Fifth was to be last on the program, but instead our own Head of the Music Department, Professor Piston, will wind up the show by conducting his greatest (and only) symphony. Last year this symphony was played for the first time, and was a great success...
...concert is to open with Haydn's Symphony No. 86 in D major, one of the "Paris Symphonies" composed about 1786. Owing to some indisposition of Dr. Koussevitzky's, little Richard Burgin, Concert Master of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will conduct both the music of Loffler and Haydn...
...citizens who stay away from concerts, the best-known high-brow composer now living is probably Russian-born Sergei Vassilievich Rachmaninoff. His crashing Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, first introduced to the U. S. in 1898 by his friend Pianist Alexander Siloti, immediately started to outsell Tin Pan Alley's song hits, has rolled up a total of some 5,000,000 copies. In 1909, when 36-year-old Rachmaninoff made his U. S. debut as a concert pianist, the "Flatbush* Prelude," as it was then known, had made his exotic name familiar to U. S. lips...
...Preludes was the famed "Flatbush." After listening to Cailliet's orchestration, the gloomy Rachmaninoff unbent, expressed himself as "happy" with the results. After the concert he unbent still further, told Philadelphia reporters he disliked swing but greatly admired the jazz of 15 years ago. "Ah," said Pianist Rachmaninoff, "if I could only hear that fine pianist, Eddy Duchin, playing Irving Berlin's Blue Skies, I'd be very happy...
Unlike many famous musicians, Paderewski was no infant prodigy. Though he took piano, violin, cello and even trumpet lessons at an early age, his teachers at the Warsaw Conservatory considered him a promising composer rather than a concert artist. Not until he was 28 did he manage to make his debut in-Paris; even then he knew only enough music to fill one program. Debutant Paderewski had to go back and learn more pieces before he could appear again. But this he did with dogged determination, and soon the musical world began to realize that the composer of the famous...