Word: mendelssohns
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...fond of Italian opera, particularly of Verdi, whom he considers one of the greatest figures in music. For him Mozart and Mendelssohn "are the two greatest geniuses of the orchestra," and Beethoven, "the master above all others." However, in a recent interview he remarked with a twinkle: "All good composers lived in Egypt 5,000 years...
...that the following bear out its generalization: When he was 4, Beethoven began studying music, knew as much as his teacher-father by the time he was 9. Other first appearances: Heifetz and Elman at 5, Mozart and Josef Hofmann at 6, Fritz Kreisler at 7, Chopin at 8, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Rubinstein, Harold Bauer at 9, Cesar Franck and Schumann...
...Rain deferred the opening of the Detroit Symphony's free concerts on Belle Isle. When the series finally began last week the temperature fell to nearly a record low for July. Nevertheless, 1,500 people stayed for a concert of Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns, Leoncavallo, Lehar. Because donors had provided about $35,000, Manager Murray Gordon Paterson was able to promise a full six-week season, running every night but Monday. Hungarian Victor Kolar, associated with the Detroit Symphony since 1919, was newly back from Europe and planned to conduct the whole series. At a later concert...
...Glee Club will sing "March of the Peers," Sullivan; "O Domino Jean Christe," des Pres; "Cante di caccia," and "Tu mi vnot," Haltan folk songs; "Tarantella," Carter; "Der Jager Abschied," and "jagdlied," Mendelssohn; "Bacchanale," Offenbach; and the Coronation Scene from "Boris Godounov," Moussorgsky. The concert will be broadcast over short-wave radio by station WIXAL of Boston...
...March, "semper Fidelis"Sousa *"Unfinished" Symphony in B minor, First movement Schubert Allegro moderato *Spring Song Mendelssohn *Academic festival Overture Brahms *Ballet Suite from "Aida" Verdi *Largo Handel *Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky *"Voices of Spring," Waltzes Strauss *"Night and Day" Porter *"Up the Street," March Mose *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...