Word: handels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lowest terms, and you will arrive at something like this: 'The Symphar-monic Orchestra gave a concert last night in Carnegie Hall. Mr. Damfurt-berg, this week's guest conductor, gave a perfectly terrible performance of Weber's Oberon overture, and a very good one of those Handel concerti grossi. He took the first movement of Chykovsky's* Fifth Symphony faster than he should, sentimentalized the second, was too slow in the third and was superb in the fourth. The concert ended with the Tannhauser overture as usual...
...assisting artist is Miss Dusolina Giannini, who has risen to fame since her recent successes in New York and London. Mozart and Handel feature her program, which is varied with Italian and Spanish folk songs...
...Concerto for Piano and Wind Orchestra. "It is," he had explained beforehand to pressmen, "quite in the style of the 17th Century." With amazing virtuosity, his quick fingers manipulated cacophonies; from the tumbled wrack of sound arose the chilled phantoms of dead melodies, smelling still of death-wraiths of Handel, Liszt, Bach, Schumann-jerked on the wires of that thundergod of ghosts, Stravinsky. So far the composer has allowed no one else to play the work in public. Listeners were astounded; critics were baffled. Said Critic Olin Downes (The New York Times) : "An amazing and electrifying development." Said Critic Lawrence...
...program: Prelude and Fugue in C minor Bach Mr. Leonard. Invocation "O God, have mercy," from "St. Paul" Mendelssohn "Behold, I tell you a mystery," from "The Messiah" Handel Mr. Houghton Tenth Concerto Handel Mr. Leonard. Scripture Reading "Lord, Thou art my refuge" Dvovak "God is my Shepherd" Dvovak "I will sing my new songs of gladness" Dvovak Mr. Houghton. Angelus du Soir Bonnet Finale from Second Symphony Wider Mr. Leonard...
Organ Prelude (a) "Sleepers, Wake" Karg-Elert (b) Pastoral Symphony Handel Salutation Invocation Chorale, "Come, Thou, O Come" Bach Carol, "Tours-Tours-Tours" Saboly Carol, "A Dream of Christmas" Holst Scripture Reading--Luke 2:1-20 Carol, "Good King Wenceslas" Carol, "Lo, How a Rose e'er Blooming" Praetorius Carol, "Christ is born of maiden fair" Congregational Hymn, "Adeste Fideles" J. Reading Carol, "Chanson joyeuse de Noel" Chorus, "Le Roi David" Honegger Carol, "Le Miracle de St. Nicholas" Chorus, "Let their celestial concerts all unite" (from "Sampson") Handel Benediction Organ Postlude "Hallelujah Chorus from "The Messiah" Handel...