Word: florent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remainder of the program consists of "The Tragedy of Salome," by Florent Schmitt, noted modern French composer, and Metropoulos's own arrangement for orchestra of Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G minor for organ. The former was composed near the turn of the century and was intended to accompany the ballet of the same name. It is generally regarded as Schmitt's best known orchestral work and by incorporating the lurid scenario into the music gives both brilliance and dramatic atmosphere. Unlike many modern orchestrations, it does not attempt realistic methods (as, for example, did the Rivier overture...
...Harvard University Orchestrs, Pierian Sodality of 1808, will give a concert tomorrow in Paine Hall at 8.15 o'clock. The program conducted by Mr. G. W. Woodworth, will consist of music by Bach, Beethoven, deFalls and Florent Schmitte...
...unknown to most of them. He carried his violin as unostentatiously as if it had been a brief case. He was to play the familiar Brahms' Concerto, surely of less interest to an up & coming audience than Respighi's glittering arrangement of five Rachmaninoff Picture Studies or Florent Schmitt's gruesome Tragedy of Salome...