Word: fantasia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Publicity has apparently done the boy no harm. Simply, with great poise, he came on the stage last week?a tiny picture child in his Lord Fauntleroy suit, white socks, ankle-ties. Carefully he sounded his strings, began Vieuxtemps' Fantasia Appassionata, followed with Mozart's A Major Concerto, Paganini's D Major and a concluding short group. Not only does Ruggiero play trills and double stops with a master's assurance, but his tone is finished, of great purity. Some critics pronounced him greater than Yehudi Menuhin. All considered him more important than the season's other violin prodigies?Giula...
...clock Vladimir Horowitz, pianist, will give a concert in Symphony Hall, playing the Brahms "Sonata in F Minor, Op. 5", Prokotieff's "Diabolic Suggestion's", "Joyous Isle" by Debussy, Chopin's "Polonaise in A-Sharp Minor", "Impromptu in A-Flat," and "Brilliant Waltz", and the Liszt "Fantasia on themes from Mozart's Opera, 'Don Juan...
...tall, hulking man walked on to the stage at Carnegie Hall last week, bent himself into an awkward bow at the piano, and played superbly Bach's Partita No. 2 in C Minor, three Scarlatti sonatas, Schumann's C Major Fantasia and the first book of Debussy preludes. He was Walter Gieseking, come from Germany for another extended tour,* and he played, as he has always played, music that he himself has tried truly and found good...
...Pierian Sodality is pursuing its new policy of fresh programs and heightened standards of performance: in fact a month before that jazz-opera is produced in New York, the audience will hear a Fantasia from Krenek's "Jonny spielt...
...unusual program is announced for the first concert of the year: The first movement of a Symphony "Pilgrim" by Paul Allen '04, Rondino by Libelius, "In Silent Forests" by Richard Strauss, Rumanian Folk-Dances by Mela Bartok as well as that orchestral fantasia "Jonny strikes up" by Ernest Krenek, which is so popular in Europe...