Word: liszt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walter Damrosch was born in Breslau, Silesia, came to the U. S. when he was nine. His father, also a conductor, was a friend of Liszt, Wagner, von Billow, Auer, Rubinstein; he led an orchestra in which Walter made his first public appearance-as a cymbal player. The youth was so nervous that he could not lift the cymbals. Later he played in his father's orchestra with the second violins to learn how instrument players follow the conductor's beat. Recently he owned the largest private music library in the world, presented it to the New York...
...program follows: Sixth Symphony Widor Invocation Prelude and Fague in A minor Bach Romance Rheinburger Toccata Faulkes Scripture In Summer Stebbins L'Organo Primitive Yoa Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H Liszt...
...Monday afternoon, Mr. Brailowaki, of wide and fine reputation, will play music ranging from Liszt to Stravinski, in Jordan Hall...
...back in the town of Bayreuth, Bavaria, famed for the first presentations of the great Wagner-cycles. There the fruits of Siegfried's U. S. journey have made possible the resumption of the Bayreuth Festivals, under the auspices of Frau Cosima Wagner, natural daughter of Abbe Liszt, divorced wife of Dr. Hans von Bulow, widow of Richard Wagner, mother of Siegfried. Eighty-six years old, she dominates everything. Though her once sharp eyes are filmed with age, her aristocratic nose appears to be more pointed than ever. She attends rehearsals, but no one is allowed to speak...
...Pattis" The world of singers is finding as many "new Adelina Pattis" as the world of the pianoforte has discovered "Liszt pupils." Galli-Curci and Tetrazzini are shortly to be supplanted by a whole series of wearers of the great diva's mantle. They are announced from Italy, England, Russia...