Word: concerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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looking ''engagingly like Henry of the cartoons" to Critic Claudia Cassidy of the Journal of Commerce. Sergei Prckofieff seated himself at a piano, neatly and precisely played with the orchestra his own Concerto No. 1. No stranger to Chicago was this 45-year-old Russian. There in 1921 both the caustic Concerto and Prokofieff's opera The Love for Three Oranges received the:r first performances. In Chicago last week on his seventh...
Those who did not know of Stravinsky's devotion to Mozart were surprised when he offered a Mozart concerto next. They were more surprised when a young U. S. pianist, performing on four days' notice, sat down and played the Mozart with skill and understanding, went on to play the hard piano part of Stravinsky's Capriccio without a flaw...
Scheduled for Stravinsky's second week, Beveridge Webster had been asked to play the first night when Samuel Dushkin took sick and had to give up the violin concerto originally announced. Young Webster made his emergency performance so technically telling that few could remember it was done in a pinch. For Pianist Webster, this performance with the Philharmonic was more historic than it was for Stravinsky. For him at 28, it capped a career already prodigious...
...State Symphony Orchestra (WPA) under the direction of Alexander Thiede is giving a concert in Sanders Theatre tonight. Ernest Bioch's Concerto Grosso is to be played and should prove to be the most interesting item. Dimitri Mitropoulos continues as guest conductor of the Boston Symphony and a presenting for this week his own arrangement of the Prelude and Fugue for Organ in B minor, Schumann's Second Symphony, a new Piano Concerto by Malipiero, and Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole...
...University of Pennsylvania chorus, by the shivering of parallel fifths in the high winds. Critics found The Bells an effective piece of scoring, mourned its unevenness. The audience was less reserved, applauded loudly, even more loudly when Composer Rachmaninoff came on after the intermission and played his Second Concerto in C Minor with almost inhuman virtuosity...