Word: haydn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when Franz Joseph Haydn's Farewell symphony had its first performance before Hungarian Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, some one had the idea of keeping the audience in darkness, giving each musician a candle of his own to snuff at the concert's close. In Cincinnati Conductor Fritz Reiner often exhibits a penchant for the historical.* Last week he attempted to duplicate the first candlelit concert but modernized methods boggled the illusion. The candles were electric, behaved accordingly. 'Cellist Desire Danczowski's flame flickered, threatened to quit before the end; 'Cellist Walter Hermann's balked when...
Tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock the Pierian Sodality will present the first concert of its season in the Living Room of the Harvard Union. The program will include Handel's "Overture to the Ode for St. Cecelia's Day"; eight of Bach's dances; and Haydn's "Symphony number...
...Royal Opera until the outbreak of the 1919 Revolution when they retired to a distant Hungarian village, devoted themselves for two years to the cult of chamber music. Now the Lener is one of the world's first string organizations. In Manhattan last fortnight its tender, lush playing of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven won noisy approval from the audience, superlatives from critics; made recent performances by the London String Quartet seem over-fastidious, bloodless by comparison. The Roth Quartet, however, also from Budapest, remains for most critics unrivaled for its flawless finesse...
...This will be followed by eight of Bach's dances from the suite in B. minor, for strings and flutes: Rondean, Sarabande Bource I, Bource II, Polonaise, Double, Minuet, and Radinaric. The concluding number on the program will be three movements from the Sympheny number two in D by Haydn Adagio Allegro, Mennetto Trio: Allegro spiritose...
...Manhattan, Artur Bodansky and the Friends of Music gave intelligent performance to Haydn's Seasons, a mellow, pastoral oratorio unheard in the U. S. for nearly 25 years. The evening before, the Conductorless Symphony (including nine women), introduced its second season...