Word: concerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being called a "businessman-composer." Though he helped carry on the family ship chandler business, Composer Carpenter has been an earnest musician and a musical institution in Chicago for some 25 years. Last week he gave his native city the first big work he had composed since 1933, a Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. His good friend, Zlatko Balokovic, Yugoslav violinist, played the Concerto. A friendly audience applauded. Respectful Chicago critics agreed that Composer Carpenter had learned something, but could not quite say what it was. Some attempts: "None-too-deeply-ecstatic emotionalism of a facile fantasy . . . rhythmic vitality . . . mercurial...
...week, conductors throughout the U. S. had their eyes on the National Orchestral Association. As competently as could be expected from a group of young musicians in which the turnover is fast and rehearsals are few, they played the Franck Symphony, and, with Pianist Muriel Kerr, the fourth Beethoven Concerto. More eyes will be turned on them next month when they play the world premiere of Jacob Weinberg's Gettysburg Address, a symphonic ode to the text of Abraham Lincoln's immortal speech...
Jaques Fevrier, a French pianist as yet unheard in this country will appear as soloist in Ravel's Pianoforte Concerto for the Left Hand, as the Boston Symphony Orchestra presents the sixth pair of concerts of its season in Symphony Hall on Friday afternoon and Saturday evening...
...Concerto was written for Paul Wittgenstein, the one-armed pianist, and had its first American performances by him under Koussevitzky's direction...
...Koussevitzky is to lead the Boston Symphony in Sanders Theatre tomorrow night and is presenting a highly interesting program. Roussel's fine Third Symphony is to be repeated from last week's concerts, and Sibelius's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor is also to be played with Orrea Pernel as soloist. In addition, Philip Emanuel Bach's Concerto in D major for Stringed Instruments (arranged by Steinberg) and the Prelude to "Die Meistersinger" will be heard...