Word: liszt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...factories. The Knabe is the official piano of the Metropolitan Opera Company; Jeritza, Ponselle, Titta Ruffo use it. Moiseiwitsch, Bauer, Ravel endorse Mason & Hamlin. The Chickering advertises itself as "essentially a piano for the home," is the oldest in the U. S.. was the favorite of Franz Liszt.* And almost all great pianists have made music rolls for the Ampico reproducing grands, which are also an American Piano Co. product. None would therefore deny (although they might prefer others; that American Piano Co. pianos are good pianos...
...Valencia and Paris Conservatories but today he says that he has learned most by listening. At 24, while playing in a Zurich café, he was asked to go to the Geneva Conservatory as head of the piano faculty, a post once held by the great Franz Liszt. He accepted, stayed in Geneva for four years, then embarked on a concert career with immediate success...
...early notice with his startling memory. When Alexander Borodin died, the overture to Prince Igor was nowhere to be found, but Glazounov had once heard Borodin play it on the piano and was able to reconstruct it entirely from memory. Aged 16, Glazounov had finished his own first symphony. Liszt liked it, played it at Weimar. Glazounov's career and reputation kept pace from then on. He wrote much music swiftly, first inspired by Russian folklore, later by classical forms. In 1905 he was chosen to succeed Rimsky-Korsakov as director of the Imperial Conservatory of Music...
...Union tonight at 8 o'clock. The program of this recital is as follows: I To an Old White Pine Macdowell Variations Mozart Prelude Glierre Perpetual Motion Poulenc Rush Hour in Hong Kong Chasins Two Cuban Dances Cervantes The Crapshooters' Dance Lane On Wings of Song Mendelssohn-Liszt La Campanclla Paganini-Liszt II Krazy Kat Ballet Carpenter
...actual playing. His program, which is of an unusual sort, will include the following pieces: I To an Old White Pine Macdowell Variations Mozart Prelude Glierre Perpetual Motion Poulenc Rush Hour in Hong Kong Chasins Two Cuban Dances Cervantes The Crapshooters Dance Lane On Wings of Song Mendelssohn-Liszt La Campanella Paganini-Liszt II Krazy Kat Ballet John Alden Carpenter