Word: korngold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said Arthur Bodanzky of the Metropolitan Opera House and the Friends of Music the other day. "No person, no moment is safe from his railleries. But everybody knows that it is Rosenthal, whose uncontrollable vice is sharp pointed jocularity. And nobody minds. A violinist played a sonata by Erich Korngold, whose father, the most important music critic in Vienna, is rather remarked for pushing his son's musical fortunes. Afterward a friend of the violinist said to him: 'Why did you play that sonata? It is bad. It isn't even grateful...
Next week: a symphony of Dvorak yet unheard here, pieces from Strauss and Rimsky-Korsakoff, and songs of Korngold and Marx fill the program. The soloist is Frances Alda...
...afternoon, selected a program which was a severe test of his powers. It contained not only the usual sonata and concerto--in this case Handel's Sonata in D major and the Vieuxtemps Concerto No. 5 in A minor--but also a Chaconne of Bach and a Suite by Korngold, incidental music to "Much Ado About Nothing". This latter occupied much of the place usually given to the "nugae canores" which were therefore reduced to two, a Nocturne of Chopin and Jota by Sarasate...