Word: concerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...programme will include Cherubini's "Wassertraeger Overture." Haydn's Clock Symphony," Kera's "Selections from Show Boat," the first movement of Mozart's "Clartnet Concerto," and Grieg's "Norwegian Dances...
Included on the program are Haydn's Clock Symphony, Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, and other classical works. As a modern selection an orchestrated medley of tunes from Jerome Kern's "Show Boat" will be presented by the combined orchestras. The baton will be shared by Miss Francis Leech of the Colby Orchestra and Malcolm Holmes...
...lessons from her. Last week Teacher Boulanger took her prize pupil to Manhattan, there led the Philharmonic-Symphony in accompaniment while he played his best-known composition. The pupil: a slight, dark-haired, 26-year-old Frenchman named Jean Frangaix. The composition: his tricky, chattering, exuberant Piano Concerto, recorded four months ago by Victor (TIME, Nov. 7). Manhattanites were not impressed by Pundit Boulanger's claims that Composer Frangaix was "a genius," but they found his concerto an agreeable, earsome knickknack...
Three years ago on a trip to Chicago, British Band-Leader Jack Hylton took with him a slight-framed pianist named Alec Templeton. Pianist Templeton was blind, but he had large, sensitive ears. Chicago listeners were amazed at his uncanny versatility. He could ripple through a Mozart concerto with thorough orthodoxy, and next minute go to town in a jammed-up version of The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round. Not only could he swing Bach, he could Bach swing. He could improvise in the style of any classical composer, aid get such a good likeness that most listeners...
...Haydn: Concerto in D Major, Op. 21, for Piano and Orchestra (Orchestre Symphonique of Paris, M. F. Gaillard conducting, with Marguerite Roesgen-Champion; Columbia: 4 sides). Earlier vintage Haydn, with less body but plenty of sparkle. Pianist Roesgen-Champion serves it properly: at room temperature...