Word: mozart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mozart's A Major Sonata, Schumann's Arabesque, Brahms' Variations on a theme by Paganini, smaller quantities of Chopin, Debussy, Albeniz-such was the varied course which Iturbi chose to run. Because he had played Mozart with the Philharmonic, his audience was not surprised to hear him endow the Sonata with a cool, fresh beauty seldom equalled. The Brahms technical difficulties were topped at a speed which was never bewildering. Debussy, despite its mistiness, had structure, clarity...
...Detroit (1918) as an able conductor. His performance last week was to conduct Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach's brisk Concerto in D, followed with an uneven performance of Brahms' Fourth Symphony. Then, handing his baton to capable Victor Kolar, he seated himself at the piano, played Mozart's D Minor Concerto with such expert tenderness as to make many in the audience almost regret that he had used up any of his time conducting...
...Maier, famous pianist, will give a 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
...Krazy Kat Ballet" by the American composer, John Alden Carpenter '97, honorary A.M. '22. Maier will explain the high points of the ballet 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
Publicity has apparently done the boy no harm. Simply, with great poise, he came on the stage last week?a tiny picture child in his Lord Fauntleroy suit, white socks, ankle-ties. Carefully he sounded his strings, began Vieuxtemps' Fantasia Appassionata, followed with Mozart's A Major Concerto, Paganini's D Major and a concluding short group. Not only does Ruggiero play trills and double stops with a master's assurance, but his tone is finished, of great purity. Some critics pronounced him greater than Yehudi Menuhin. All considered him more important than the season's other violin prodigies?Giula...