Word: mendelssohn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concert at the 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
...during the 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
Last year when Ruggiero played publicly for the first time in San Francisco, all who heard him marveled. Early in the fall he played the Mendelssohn Concerto with the Manhattan Symphony (TIME, Oct. 28). Critics and laymen alike forgot that they had gathered for the debut concert of Conductor Henry Hadley's orchestra, spoke only of Ricci. Next day he was a celebrity. The customary human interest stories followed?"Ruggiero is a real boy despite his genius . . . likes history, lemon pie, strawberries . . . sleeps twelve hours a night, from seven until seven...
...Manhattan, a new orchestra called the Manhattan Symphony gave the first of a series of 30 popular-priced concerts. Dr. Henry Hadley, rarely inspiring as conductor or composer, waved the baton. Ruggiero Ricci, nine-year-old violinist from San Francisco, astounded listeners with a marvelous playing of the Mendelssohn concerto. Like young Yehudi Menuhin, this new prodigy is a pupil of Louis Persinger...
...Heroine is despondent. She sits at the window of her drab abode, contemplating suicide. The organ of the cinema house plays Tchaikovsky's Pathétique or something equally lugubrious and appropriate. But, hark! A knock on the door! The organist changes quickly into some gay lilt by Mendelssohn. It is the Hero, or a telegram from him, just in time. The Heroine does not leap to her death. Everything ends happily-in the movies. Now that the "talkies" have come, you can actually hear that situation-saving knock on the door. And nowadays the organ music...