Word: liszt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first recital in New York. For half of a normal lifetime he has stood as a symbol of all-around pianistic mastery. And in his recital he displayed the prodigious technique that has become a tradition of him and he displayed as well an imposingly architectural interpretation of Liszt and Beethoven. But Rosenthal enjoys a distinction other than purely musical, that...
...brown curtains parted and out came a chunky little old man with a head something like Franz Liszt's portraits-the same high forehead, eagle nose and long gray hair. The audience burst into applause. . . The little man put his feet together and clasped his hands and bowed stiffly from the waist, looking very like the frog footman in Alice as he did so. The audience kept on applauding and he kept on bowing. . . . Then he sat down and began to play Beethoven's Pathetic Sonata...
...certain emotional restraint that lent to her singling a peculiar voluptuousness. Her voice showed to best advantage in Batch's Bist du bel mir." Her rendition of Batti, batti" would, we think have been more successful had it been more animated. She sang also Dupare's "Chanson Triste", Liszt's "Comment disaient-lls?" and Rachmanlnoff's, "Flcods of Spring...
...will conduct a series of orchestra concerts in America next season, will give programs interesting in at least one respect. It is stated that he will limit himself more or less to his own compositions, those of his father, the great Richard "Wagner, and of his grandfather, Franz Liszt...
...program of the regular "Pops" concert at 8.15 o'clock tonight in Symphony Hall follows: 1.Overture to "La Forza del Destino" Verdi 2. Waltz, "Joyous Vienna" Komzak 3. Meditation from "Thais" Massenet 4. Fantasia, "L'Africaine" Meyerbeer 5. First Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt 6. Prelude to Act III. "Tristan and Isolde" Wagner (English Horn Solo, Louis Speyer) 7. Phantoms Chaloff 8. Hymn to the Sun, from "Iris" Mascagni 9. Fantasia. "Lucia di Lammermoor" Donizetti 10. Minuet Bolzoni 11. Invitation to the Dance Weber-Berlioz