Word: cortot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marionette opera, El Retablo de Maese Pedro, Sibelius' Tapiola, Casella's Scarlatina, Honegger's Phaedre, Ernst Hallfter's Spanish Suite, a symphony by Austin George Antheil, Milhaud's Ballad for Piano and Orchestra. Soloists will be Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Efrem Zimbalist, Alfred Cortot, Albert Spalding, Paul Kochanski, Rudolf Laubenthal, Dusolina Giannini, Elsa Alsen, Walter Gieseking, John Charles Thomas, Pablo Casals, Josef Szigeti, Alfredo Casella, Darius Milhaud, Lewis Richards, Georges Barrere, Mischa Mischakov...
...Hall begins next Sunday afternoon with Titta Ruffo, the famous baritone. The dates of the other concerts, all on Sunday afternoons, are as follows: November 5, Sophie Braslau, contralto, and Emilio de Gogorza, baritone; January 28, Frances Alda, soprano of the Metropolitan, and Alexander Siloti, planist: February 18, Alfred Cortot, French planist, and Jacques Thibaud, a violinist fully appreciated only by a small but discriminating public; and on a date to be announced later, John McCormack, popular Irish tenor...
Madame Matzenauer, one of the returning artists, is favorably remembered for her rendition of songs by Brahms, Schumann, Wagner, and Schubert when she sang with the Orchestra three years ago., Alfred Cortot, of crisp and crystal tone, played the third Beethoven Concerto in C-minor at the concerts in the season of 1919-1920, when Albert Spalding also played the Dvorak violin concerto. Moiseiwitsch, whose "discovery" was the sensation of the year in 1920, played the Schumann concerto in A-minor two years ago. Most of the other soloists are old friends to the regular concert-goers: Suffice...