Word: mozart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Opera Company will open its stay in Boston by presenting Gounod's "Faust" in English on Monday evening. "Faust" will be followed by Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" on Tuesday and Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" on Wednesday. Tickets for the performances may be obtained at Steinert Hall on Boylston St. The prices of seats will range from...
...Francisco, a small boy had a birthday, made his party out of such stuff as Mozart, Bach and Tartini and entertained 10.000 guests. He was Yehudi Menuhin, who after two years abroad, has upset the tradition that a child prodigy can never be a great artist. Out he came on to the great Civic Auditorium stage, a chunky child in the white socks, silk blouse and velvet breeches of the conventional boy violinist. Over his face spread a wide, confiding smile. Up to his chin went the violin ? itself not quite man-sized ? and the concert began...
...five. He gets up at seven, exercises, has breakfast, practices for three hours, has lunch, plays outdoors all the afternoon, has dinner and goes to bed at seven. Ask him what he likes best and his answer will be Bach and Beethoven and Handel and Haydn and Mozart and San Francisco and ice-cream sodas (the first thing he asked for after his Manhattan concert), handball, climbing rocks, chess, the new Cadillacs, St. Bernard dogs and giving concerts. Some weeks ago Walter Damrosch cautioned him gravely against playing the Beethoven Concerto with the New York Symphony and Yehudi said...
...program is as follows: Le reville-matin Couperin Le bavolet flottant Couperin Rondo alla Turca Mozart Variations serieuses Mendelssohn Fourth Sonata Scriabine Rigaudon, from "Le tombeau de Couperin" Ravel Alborada del graciosco Chopin Nocurne Chopin Deux ecossaises Chopin Hungarian Rhapsody number 13 Liszt
...results they attained. Sir Thomas the showman had become Sir Thomas the poet. True, he lapsed a little in the Tschaikowsky B Flat Minor Concerto, but then the Concerto with all its noisy trappings was for Pianist Vladimir Horowitz*, and served him accordingly. Sir Thomas came back with Mozart's C Major Symphony, Berlioz' Chasse Royale et I'Orage, Wagner's Meistersinger overture. The audience stayed long after he was through, cheered him, regretted unanimously that he was to conduct only four concerts...