Word: cortot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Practically every great city has its orchestra. For years Paris has been the notable exception. Now the formation of a Paris orchestra is announced. Two million francs have been subscribed, 80 musicians engaged. Louis Fourestier, Ernest Ansermet and Alfred Cortot will conduct the first season's concerts, to be devoted impartially to modern and classical music...
...dinner and the celebrities?including Mary Garden, the company of the Opera Comique (Paris) and the orchestra of the Paris Conservatory responded with evening after evening of inimitable entertainment? Pelleas and Melisande, played, acted and sung as never before; Cesar Franck's "Variations Symphoniques" executed by masterly Alfred Cortot; the Dresden Opera Company tilting friendliwise to excel their French friends. . . . It was a love feast as well as a music fest. And between rare performances the delegates might wander, as tourists may for weeks to come, among exhibits ranging from furniture polish to autographed manuscripts of Mozart's Magic Flute...
...others, by most critics, are held to be Ignaz Jan Paderewski and Sergei Rachmaninov. Contemporary estimates, ever dangerous, might have to make room for Alfred Cortot; and Vladimir de Pachmann, admitted master interpreter of Chopin, yet lives. Of these careers, while Composer- pianist Paderewski's has been the most phenomenal, many people recall when Josef Hofmann, aged 11, his feet barely touching the pedals, was the U. S. musical sensation of the day (1887). Compelled by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children to withdraw, he studied under Anton Rubinstein, "lion with the velvet paw." His playing...
...first New York Symphony concert of the season. Mozart had the honor of beginning, with his energetic Symphony in D, cooked to order at his father's command to tickle the palate of a Salzburg burgomaster. Schumann was next with his Concerto in A Minor, with Pianist Alfred Cortot to spin the important thread cunningly. Then came a stranger, Jacques Ibert, with three pieces from his ballet suite, Les Rencontres, given its U. S. premiere a fortnight ago by the Boston Symphony. In conflicting keys, restless violins traced his vagaries of flower girls and Creoles in the Debussy manner...
...Cleveland Orchestra, Nikolai Sokolov, conductor, will give 65 concerts beginning Oct. 21. Among the soloists will be Elsa Alsen, Alfred Cortot, Lucrezia Bori, Ruth Breton, John Charles Thomas, Respighi, Josef Szigeti, Dusolina Giannini, Efrem Zimbalist, Harold Bauer...