Word: concerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill, promises to attend the school's concert if he can. Although making him keep this amiable promise proves fully as difficult as it would be in real life, Heifetz does keep it, ends the picture in the musical blaze of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto...
Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, 47, was born in London, son of a U. S.-born chairman of Anglo-American Oil Co. Dapper, well-nosed, greying, Bliss is rated as a modernist with a sense of humor. Last month Manhattan heard the world premiere of a Bliss piano concerto, showy, noisy, built for big-muscled virtuosos and played (with the Philharmonic-Symphony under Sir Adrian Boult) by just such a pounder: a British onetime prodigy whose concert name is now simply Solomon...
Harl McDonald: Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Jeanne Behrend and Alexander Kelberine, pianists, the Philadelphia Orchestra with Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor: 6 sides). By the Colorado-born composer (Rhumba Symphony, Lament for the Stolen) whose work the Philadelphia Orchestra has consistently given first hearings, and who last week, following the orchestra's recent troubles, took over his duties as its latest manager. The bang-up last movement of the concerto is based on two Mexican dance rhythms, the Juarezca and Malague...
...March from "The Queen of Sheba"Gounod *Overture to "Egmont" Beethoven "Bach Goes to Town," A Fugue in Swing Templeton Orchestration by Henry Brant *"Tales from the Vienna Woods," Waltzes Strauss Concerto for Pianoforte No. 4 in D minor, Op. 70 Rubinstein I. Moderato II. Moderato assai III. Allegro assai Soloist: Selma Pelonsky Songs by "Smiff en Poofs" *Fantasy on Gershwin Melodies *Prayer of Thanksgiving, Old Dutch Hymn Valerius-Kremser *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
Besides the diet of beer and pretzels at the Pops, there has been plenty of substantial musical fare available, since the end of the regular season. Last week the Lincoln Symphony concert on Thursday evening was unexpectedly good, especially n the performance of the Mozart concerto for flute and harp. Probably the best concert of the week, however, was the Friday night Open House at the Longy School. The program was made up entirely of early eighteenth century chamber music which is at its best in the atmosphere of intimacy and informality which these recitals always have. The concert...