Word: concerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greek legend of Daphnis and Chloe, a shepherd and a shepherdess who grew up together and loved inevitably. Violinist Efrem Zimbalist wrote it. Conductor Leopold Stokowski played it first in Philadelphia. In Manhattan next day he put it on the same program with Stravinsky's new violin concerto, a superficial showpiece on which Violinist Samuel Dushkin has the purchased monopoly, also given its U. S. premiere last week, by the Boston Symphony. Few great virtuosi have written important music, particularly for instruments not their own. (Notable exception is Pianist Serge Rachmaninoff who has written extensively for both orchestra...
...Manhattan Grisha Goluboff, 9, of San Francisco, played Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto so deftly that critics spoke of him in the same breath with Violinist Ruggiero Ricci, II, who was scheduled for a recital a few nights later in spite of his father, who protested in court last year that Guardian Elizabeth Lackey was injuring the boy by permitting him to play in public (TIME, Aug. 11, 1930), now has custody of child...
Most prodigious of all, Yehudi Menuhin, 14, wore his first long pants in London, to play Beethoven's Violin Concerto under Sir Thomas Beecham...
Adenoids and head colds affect few people so unpleasantly as they do those who blow on wind instruments. At a Philharmonic concert in Manhattan last week German Bruno Jaenicke, reputed the world's greatest French horn player, huffed, puffed & snuffed valiantly through the first two movements of the Concerto which Richard Strauss wrote for his horn-playing father. Then, exhausted, Horn-Player Jaenicke left the stage. Conductor Erich Kleiber strode after him, but no amount of persuasion would return Bruno Jaenicke to his snuffling misery. An unprecedented announcement was made: the Philharmonic was unable to finish a number...
...settled back in their chairs with the idea that the afternoon's interest was over. The German, Adolf Busch, was unknown to most of them. He carried his violin as unostentatiously as if it had been a brief case. He was to play the familiar Brahms' Concerto, surely of less interest to an up & coming audience than Respighi's glittering arrangement of five Rachmaninoff Picture Studies or Florent Schmitt's gruesome Tragedy of Salome...