Word: concerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul Whiteman's jazz-concert played in highbrow Aeolian Hall. The enthusiastic reception it got is now historic. Thereafter Gershwin wrote for a double audience. Some 18,000 people packed Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium when he played his works there. Walter Damrosch conducted Gershwin's Jazz Concerto in sanctified Carnegie Hall. The dazzling harmonics and crisp, slangy rhythms of his American in Paris pleased critics at home and abroad, as well as ballet troupes (see below...
...Cantata Program tonight, directed by Mrs. Langdon Warner and assisted by E. Power Biggs, organist, will include Handel's "Concerto No. 2 in B flat", two Bach numbers and one by Mozart...
...their Russian teacher. Both are to enter a nation-wide musical competition, but the elder boy arouses the ire of the professor through a prank and is banished from the studio. In a grim and gloomy mood at his misfortune, he composes an original cadenza to Beethoven's concerto which is such a masterpiece that when his younger pal plays it in the competition finals, both are justly acclaimed as the coming miracle men of music...
...assurance with which the flabby, sad-eyed man played his Sonata for Viola Alone, his curious indifference to tonal qualities. Later they had a chance to hear Hindemith's Der Schwanendreher (The Organgrinder) which had never been played in the U. S. before. Der Schwanendreher is a concerto for viola and small orchestra, based on traditional German folk tunes. In it Hindemith expanded a song called Among Hills and Valleys into a whole astonishing movement. Bassoon, clarinet, oboe, horn and solo viola made an intricate, lovely fugue out of The Little Bird on the Fence. Critics considered the concerto...
...Orchestra is on tour this week, but on the week-end of April 9 and 10 they will return to play an all-Brahms program with Myra Hess, the English pianist, as soloist. The Academic Festival Overture will open the program and will be followed by the Second Pianoforte Concerto in B flat in which Myra Hess will play. Brahms' Second Symphony in D major will close the concert...