Word: handels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hall, Manhattan, last week, made a solemn bow and, turning around, flipped his coat tails in the face of a smart Philharmonic-Symphony audience. The gesture was not one of disrespect. German Bruno Walter was just preparing to sit down before a keyboard, to play the harpsichord part of Handel's G Minor Concerto for Strings, also to conduct the orchestra. Sometimes his right hand, sometimes his left, flew from the keyboard long enough to let his will be emphatically known to violinists, 'cellists, viola and contrabass players. But he conducted for the most part by facial expressions slightly stern...
Under the direction of Mr. Clifton, who received a master's degree in music from Harvard, the Boston musicians will render Handel's "Concerto Grosso for a String Orchestra in F Major" as the first number. This will be followed by Griffes "Poem for Flute and Orchestra", a new work, for which Georges Laurent, a regular member of the orchestra, will carry the solo parts. Next on the program will be "Daybreak" and Siegfried's "Rhine Journey," excerpts from Wagner's famous opera "Die Gotterdammenung," Sibelius' "Symphony No. 2 in 11 Major," one of the best known of the Finnish...
...March from Handel's Water Music...
...concert will be started by some studies by Handel played by both Orchestras and followed by a dance...
...three pieces that will be played by both orchestras are Watermusic by Handel, De Falla Dance, and Artist's Life by Strauss...