Word: loeffler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Turner Loeffler, Alsatian composer Mus.D...
...Arts and Letters "to aid in fuller recognition of distinguished American artists." The American artists were: Mme. Charles Cahier, contralto; Ruth Breton, violinist; Fred Patton, baritone; John Powell, composer-pianist. The American music was Powell's Variations and Fugue on a theme of F. C. Hahr, songs by Loeffler, Chadwick, Carpenter, Sidney Homer, Henry Hadley, E. S. Kelley, Walter Damrosch, Edward Harris, arrangements of Kentucky mountain songs by Howard A. Brockway, violin numbers by Brockway, Cecil Burleigh, Hadley, MacDowell and Sowerby...
Memories of My Childhood is the name of Charles Martin Loeffler's new symphonic poem. He reminisces in music of a time when he did not know he would be a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, nor a famous composer. Opening with church bells, the poem sings of a Russian village, Smiela, where as a boy Loeffler heard "Russian peasant songs, the Yonrod's Litany-prayer, fairy tales and dance songs." Here is a novelty. So far, it has been given only by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra...
...possess the polish and precision that one expects of high-grade organizations. There is no question, however, but that they have won the right to some additional hearings. Later, perhaps, America may have an efficient orchestra, capable of extracting the best from the works of MacDowell, Loeffler, Carpenter, Deems Taylor. That would be indeed worth while...
...composers have been recommended by the American Board of the International Society to be submitted to the International Jury in Zurich in May, and performed, if accepted, the second week of August in Salzburg at the International Festival. Among the works submitted is a string quartette by Charles Martin Loeffler, an American composer whose fame is international. Mr. Loeffler has won high praise from such a well-known critic as Lawrence Gilman, recently appointed to The New York Tribune as music critic after the death of Mr. Kriebbiel...