Word: mozart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...autograph which looked like Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's, Walter Toscanini, long-nosed son of Conductor Arturo Toscanini, once paid 2,700 lire ($229.50). Shortly Son Walter, a rare-book dealer, learned that the signature was forged, gave Milan police a tip as to who the forger was. They found the rogue, one Tobia Nicotra, in his workshop, busy making autographs of Christopher Columbus, Lorenzo de' Medici, Warren Gamaliel Harding, many another...
...first concert, on Thursday evening, October 25, is dedicated to the memory of H. t. Parker, late dramatic critic of the Boston Transcript. The program consist of compositions which Mr. Parker had suggested for a chamber music concert: Mozart's Oboe Quintet, k. 370; John Alden Carpenter's String Quartet, and Brahm's Quartet in C Minor...
Salzburg bridges the glacial waters of the Salzach. sees its morning and evening suns at the rims of the Alps. In 1842 Salzburg held its first memorial in honor of its most famed native son. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart-a requiem mass for the soth anniversary of his death. A Mozart Theatre for his operas and a Mozarteum for his concerts were built later. After the War, a group of musicians decided to enlarge the Mozart festivals to include the works of other composers, converted the old Winter Riding School into the Festspielhaus, to seat 1,400. From its opening month...
...concert. Bruno Walter and Hans Lange, the other two Philharmonic conductors, could never quite fill Carnegie Hall last season. Since Herr Walter has been in Austria, however, he has developed the trick of jam-packing concert halls like the Maestro himself. His performances of Weber's Oberon and Mozart's Don Giovanni left few doubts that he had run off with the opera honors, might well be considered the Festival's Hero...
...Boston, Philadelphia, Manhattan and Chicago. In summer they would go to Europe; in autumn perhaps to the San Francisco Opera. But spring would find them visiting a dozen smaller U. S. communities which year after year hold worthy local festivals. Already this spring Harrisburg, Pa., has had its annual Mozart concerts. Charlottesville was host to the Virginia State Choral Society. St. Louis concentrated on folk songs and sea chanteys. Rochester gave a hearing to contemporary native composers. Rich programs have been given at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, and at Cornell University in Ithaca, N. Y. Last week...