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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paisley shawl, Composer Walton's opus proved warm as well as intricate. And though Cleveland's dowagers found its texture scratchier than crepe, Cleveland's critics fingered its solid warp & woof with enthusiasm. Said Clevelander Rodzinski, rolling a long cigaret of Polish tobacco after the concert: "This is one of the most important violin works of the century. Emphatically so!" Echoed Violinist Heifetz: "I'm very crazy about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sitwell to Heifetz | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...pianist, but also the composer of three operas, a symphony, two piano concertos and a sheaf of smaller and more popular operas. One of these, the "Flatbush" Prelude in C Sharp Minor, had already swept the world, made his name a byword among people who never went near a concert hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rachmaninoff | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Under the auspices of the Pierian Sodality of 1808, the University Orchestra will present a concert featuring the works of Back and Handel in Paine Hall at 8:15 o'clock tomorrow night. Malcolm H. Holmes with G. Wallace Woodworth, acting as guest conductor, will lead the orchestra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pierian Sodality Announces Tonight's Concert Program | 12/13/1939 | See Source »

...program are the F minor Harpsichord Concerto and a Sonatine from the cantata, God's Time is Best. Two Handel compositions--the Concerto Grosso number 24, and the Sinfonia to Ottone--will also be played. All of these works are unfamiliar to us and probably to the majority of concert-goers. The Handel concerto is interesting, for the two movements of which it is composed are really sketches for the well-known Water Music and will show the seeds of some of Handel's loveliest musical ideas...

Author: By L. C. Hoivlk, | Title: The Music Box | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

...tremendous possibilities of another aspect of student music were demonstrated last Thursday at the Leverett House Christmas Concert. Except for the W. F. Bach concerto which is much too fussy for any but a first rate orchestra, there was very little of the struggling with notes which one might expect from a group made up of amateurs even to the conductors. The outstanding job was done by the Radcliffe Madrigal Group in the three carols for women's voices, but the execution of the whole program was on a surprisingly high level. The concert and others like...

Author: By L. C. Hoivlk, | Title: The Music Box | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

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