Word: koshetz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ukranian National Chorus with 30 singers will give a concert in Sanders Theatre tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock. The concert promises to be one of the finest musical performances in Sanders Theatre in years, for not only has Alexander Koshetz, the conductor, attained remarkable vocal effects for mixed voices, but he also presents Ewssei Beloussoff, Russia's foremost cellist, as the soloist of the evening. President Hibben of Princeton in commenting on the Princeton performance of the chorus said, "Their work is an expression of the highest form of art and our Princeton audience was enthusiastic in its approval...
Tomorrow evening, the Ukranian National Chorus, under the direction of Alexander Koshetz, will sing in Symphony Hall. They are no strangers to Boston, and will find a cordial public...
...Nina Koshetz of the Chicago Opera Co. sang a remarkably interesting group of songs. For year we have heard Lieder singers and cantatrices, but only recently has the wealth of Russian vocal music been disclosed to us. Mme. Koshetz struggled bravely against a disagreeable attack of laryngitis, and she won out, for by the time she reached the two most important songs by Prokoifew and Moussorgsky, her tone was clear and of a beautiful resonant quality. How fascinating these Russians are with their charming simplicity and vivid imagination...
Prokoflew is little known in this country outside of his opera "The Love for the Three Oranges" and two piano concertos, due to the unfavorable condition of Russian music publishing houses. In Paris his reputation ranks with that of Strawinsky, and his "Song Without Words" written for Mme. Koshetz seems to bear this statement out. In the weird middle section with its dissonant rustling of strings, which would tax the pitch of any singer, the voice rang true. The Moussorgsky "Dance and Revery" from "The Fair of Sorotchinsk" was sung with great dash and vigor, although Liadow's orchestration...
...Boston Symphony, Pierre Monteux conductor, will give the sixth of its series of nine concerts this evening at 8 o'clock in Sanders, Theatre. Nina Koshetz, so prano, will be accompanied by the orchestra in a number of selections...