Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relegated to the limbo of forgotten music. Only Bach has escaped the dense fog of obscurity that surrounds almost every composer before Haydn. It is lamentable enough that such acknowledged masters as Palestrina, Scarlatti, Corelli, Vivaldi, Purcell, and Boccherini should be worshipped from afar but rarely heard in American concert halls...
Sunday night, from 7:15 to 8 o'clock, there will be a concert, in which members of the house will participate. Francois G. Leydet '48, pianist, will play the Chopin "Revolutionary Etude" and the Mozart "Fantasia." Mozart's Clarinet Concerto will be performed by Don Mishara '46, accompanied by Nicholas Van Slyck Occ. An original work by Van Slyek, "Sonats for Trumpet and Piano", will be played by the composer and Hugh L. Whitehouse...
...customary to begin a review of a Budapest Quartet concert by launching into effusive praise of what has rightly been called the greatest string quartet of the twentieth century. A listener can only marvel at the Quartet's richness and clear, full tones, to say nothing of its amazing technical proficiency in all the intricacies of the string quartet...
...appearance of the season, should, when restricted to three quartets, play those of Brahms and Mendelssohn as showpieces, rather than the far superior works of Haydn and Beethoven. Even with such a deficient program, however, the beauty of the group's tone and their remarkably close collaboration makes this concert one of the greatest pleasures of any musical season...
Prokofiev: "Alexander Nevsky" Cantata (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting, Jennie Tourel and the Westminster Choir; Columbia, 10 sides). Russia's greatest living composer shuttles from Gregorian chants to jazzy brass fanfares in this expanded, concert-hall version of his score for a Sergei Eisenstein film. Performance: good...