Word: concerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heralded by an unprecedented hullabaloo of publicity, and greeted by a shower of critical ice water, Schumann's "lost" Violin Concerto finally had its U. S. premiere last week, when 20-year-old Yehudi Menuhin, former infant prodigy, appearing for his first New York recital in two seasons, played it in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall...
Appearing as soloist with the Boston Symphony orchestra in their regular week-end concerts, Mr. Heifltz will offer the first presentation in America of Serge Prokofleff's Second Violin Concerto. This work was originally performed in Madrid in 1935, the year of its composition...
...Violin Concerto of Brahms in D major will also be performed by Mr. Heifetz. The last performance of the Concerto in the Friday and Saturday series was in the spring of 1931, when Nathan Milstein was the soloist...
...Koussevitzky will open the program with a work by Michael Starokadomsky, a composer of Soviet Russia whose music has recently come to the attention of the western world. It is a concerto for orchestra in three movements, performed as a feature of the Festival of Contemporary Music in Paris last June...
Handel's Oboe Concerto in B Flat major Soloist: Wilder Schmalz...