Word: concerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During rests in the graceful Mozart D Minor Concerto, a curly-haired blond boy with chubby knees sat at his piano one night last week so impatient for the Philadelphia Symphony to give him his cues that he beat time with clenched fists. When his cues came, he played with such sympathy and taste that the audience stormed applause, the gentle critics went home to praise unreservedly an outstanding young wonder, Julius ("Buddy") Katchen, II. Prodigy Katchen had been "discovered" by Conductor Eugene Ormandy (who himself made his debut at 7), had been given a preliminary hearing before the Philadelphia...
Tickets for this recital, at $1.00 each, are on sale at the Museum and must be obtained in advance. No tickets will be sold at the door. PROGRAM Concerto in B flat, No. 2 Handel Trio Sonata in E flat, No. 1 Bach Three Movements Prelude and Fugue in A minor Bach Bassun of dessus de Trompotte Clerambault Variations on a Nool Daquin Two Chorales Marcel Dupre Our Father In Dulci Jubilo...
Sanders Theatre is to house the Federal Music Project's State Symphony Orchestra next Sunday evening in a program headed by Tschaikowsky's First Symphony and including Tartini's Concerto in A Major. These concerts are not of the first or even second rank technically, but they are almost invariably quite worthwhile as a musical experience, and the low price of admission is an added attraction...
Young Jewish Violinist Yehudi Menuhin recently announced he would play the world premiere of Robert Schumann's lost violin concerto in St. Louis on Nov. 12 (TIME, Aug. 23). At his summer home in Los Gatos, Calif. Violinist Menuhin last week received the following cable from Germany: "German Government decided today world premiére performance Schumann Concerto can only take place at official anniversary Reichskulturkammer, Berlin, Nov. 13. All previously announced first performances elsewhere with piano accompaniment must be postponed...
...feel as if I have a holy trust," exclaimed Yehudi Menuhin last week. "The work is so great and so beautiful." Papa Moshe Menuhin revealed that his son had dragged Sister Hephzibah Menuhin to the piano, mastered the concerto in a few days, and "wept with joy" to find that the work justified his faith in the sanity of Schumann's last years. In a lengthy press release Papa Menuhin said that Violinist Menuhin had insisted that nothing but the Urtext, the original unedited "pure Schumann, 100% of it," be printed, for "Yehudi said: 'I ask no special...