Word: haydn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went Negro children from Louisiana's parish schools and Mississippi's bottom lands, Negro artists from all over the U. S., Negro players, musicians, authors, also many an eminent white. All week Dillard held an arts festival. Negro children sang spirituals and Tschaikowsky; the Dillard Chorus sang Haydn's Creation; high-school actors gave plays; Dillard's Players' Guild put on Karel Capek's R. U. R.; Dillard's gallery exhibited prize Negro paintings and photographs. Dillard's president, small, earnest Dr. William Stuart Nelson, beamed with pride...
...character, demand much greater concentration on the listener's part. But the reward of this extra concentration is well worth the effort. For in training oneself to appreciate these smaller forms, not an insuperable task by any means, one will become acquainted with the greatest music of Schubert and Haydn, and much of the greatest of Mozart, Brahms, and Beethoven...
...have ever heard who can cut Joe Venuti in his better days. He told me after the concert that he had often listened to Joe and that he enjoyed him very much. I am sorry to say that I didn't like the way the Strad boys played the Haydn. They rushed it like Toscanini playing the blues and I expected. Uncle Joe Haydn to pop through the skylight...
...until 8:45 there will be an hour's classical program with commentary on which two Haydn selections will be played. First will be Symphony No. 102 in B flat Major. There will also be his quartet selection, Opus...
...perfect vehicles for displaying the singing quality of a violin. It was also Corelli who made the first step towards the development of the sonata form, by the introduction of contrasted themes within his works. The full realization of this idea was not to come until the era of Haydn and Mozart...