Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Strauss's Schlagobers had its U. S. premiere in a concert suite conducted by Bruno Walter with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. Most critics pounced on it as asinine stuff well-named. They remarked, not for the first time, that the genius who wrote Elektra and Rosenkavalier, Till Eulenspiegel and Don Juan, had petered out. Strauss's amazing orchestrations are taken so much for granted that no one thought to comment on the fact that the worst of Strauss is better than the best of most present-day composers...
While Worcester, famed among musicians as the home of the oldest music festival in the U. S., opened a new art museum last week, the Toledo Museum of Art turned the tables by opening a 1,500-seat concert hall in one of its new wings, gift of the late Ohio bottle maker Edward Drummond Libbey. That too was an occasion. Curly-haired Leopold Stokowski and his Philadelphia Symphony traveled out for the opening concert. Grandiloquently entitled The Peristyle, the new concert hall is built like a Greek outdoor theatre with sharply sloping banks of seats around the arena...
...Stradivarius Quartet will play its last Harvard concert this season in the Fogg Museum at 8 o'clock tonight...
...third volume of the Oxford Edition of the Works of Chopin includes the Masurkas, Moreeaux do Concert. Concerios and the Rondean pour Deux Plane. They are all taken from the original Chopin manuscripts, with autographed changes shown in a clear manner. There is an introduction in English French and German which explains the need for such an edition and the difficulties in compiling it. The work in its entirety is probably too expensive and voluminous for most pianists, but should be included in a musical library of any pretensions...
Died. Clarence Eugene Whitehill, 61, longtime Metropolitan Opera Company baritone; in his Manhattan home; of heart failure during his sleep, four hours after singing at an unemployment relief concert...