Word: mendelssohns
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Whatever the original idea, the grace and contrapuntal vigor of the concertos have delighted musicians ever since. Some famous performances: Chopin, playing with Liszt and Ferdinand Hiller; Clara Wieck (later Schumann) with Felix Mendelssohn and Ignaz Moscheles...
...Carnegie Hall opening in October, the Philharmonic will play two weeks of four 45-minute shows a day in Manhattan's huge (6,000 seats) Roxy Theater. The first week's program, on a bill which includes Tyrone Power in The Black Rose: Wagner, Prokofiev, Puccini, Mendelssohn, De Falla...
...Chicago Symphony (TIME, Jan. 9). After six months of negotiation, Sir Malcolm had accepted on condition that he could spend half his time free-lancing at home & abroad and conducting the roof-raising choral concerts which are his specialty (he has recorded both Handel's Messiah and Mendelssohn's Elijah for Columbia...
...human and views the world through a dewy spider's web which she is constantly brushing from her eyes. It is an inspired performance. Other outstanding players are Estelle Winwood, as the Madwoman's gaily demented pal, John Carradine as the oratorical rag-picker, and Lydia Westman and Elconora Mendelssohn as the other accomplices...
...Ridgefield, Conn, high school, he led his orchestra, proud, gay and beaming, through a typical "pop" concert program that his concert and radio audiences seldom hear him play. While kids and grown-ups sat enthralled, he gave them Saint-Saëns' bone-rattling Danse Macabre; he made Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony glow with Italian sunlight, Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun shimmer sensually. By the time he had sailed through one of his own light favorites, Waldteufel's Skaters' Waltz, the audience could not let him go without more. Even though he despises encores...