Word: concertos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could hit a piano keyboard very hard. But she can: there is enough thunder in her piano-playing to have been heard all over Paris. Last week, when Nicole made her U.S. debut in Carnegie Hall, some Manhattan critics found her performance of Schumann's Concerto in A Minor too cold and brittle for their taste. But most of them were sure of one thing: in the small field of women concert pianists, she was the brightest newcomer of the year. "Here," wrote the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson, "is an artist one can enjoy with...
...back in the U.S. He had come at the invitation of his friend Arturo Toscanini to conduct the NBC Symphony Orchestra in four concerts, and he had brought along a briefcase full of surprises. For his first concert, he wrenched the orchestra and three soloists through a jangling, abrasive concerto for harp, harpsichord, piano and strings by Swiss Composer Frank Martin. Last week, he pulled out another new work: the Symphony No. 5 of Czech Composer Bohuslav Martinu. Another surprise: a seldom-heard work by 91-year-old U.S. Expatriate Templeton Strong, who left for Switzerland some 50 years...
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (Erica Morini, violin, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Désiré Defauw conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Perhaps the best recorded version, yet of Tchaikovsky's familiar work, played by the leading U.S. woman violinist. Recording: good...
Columbia Concert Orchestra (Sun. 11:30 p.m., CBS). U.S. premiere of Richard Strauss 's Oboe Concerto. Soloist: Mitchell Miller...
...concerto wins a prize (put up, in secret, by Merle) and he goes East and gets his eyes fixed. Successful and happy, he begins to hit the high spots. He can't bear to return to his blind sweetheart. Merle comes East and pretends to be a rich girl who loves music and can see. He falls for her again but this time neither of them is happy, for both feel that the blind girl is being treated shabbily. At last Dana's concerto is played in Carnegie Hall (with Artur Rubinstein at the piano); he hears...