Word: mozart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much rather play before a crowd of kids from sixteen to twenty than I would before a crowd of middle aged folks. That's the truth. The younger generation are saying alas and alack with Mozart and the rest. They want something lively, and sentimental. Some time ago I toured the South with Cab Calloway--we played before crowds of these southern debutantes. They almost wont crazy over the hot stuff. Why, after the dances they used to crowd around us to get our autographs, and honestly, there was always more of a group around Cab, even in the South...
...have twice chosen to combine their talents, to play sonatas for the piano and violin which most musicians either neglect or use to exhibit their individual virtuosity. Last week Manhattan's Town Hall filled quickly and completely to hear the team play Brahms's A Major Sonata, Mozart's B Flat Sonata, and Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata (socalled because Beethoven dedicated it to Rodolphe Kreutzer, a French violinist who never took the trouble to play it). Throughout the program the two submerged their personalities to make music that was perfectly balanced, completely eloquent in itself...
...program is as follows: "Harvard Hymn" J. K. Paine '69 The Glee Club and Orchestra "Symphony in C-Major" Mozart The Orchestra "Two Choruses," from "Orpheus" Gluck The Glee Club and Orchestra "Danse des Bouffons," from "The snow Maiden" Rimsky-Korsakov The Orchestra "Ecco Iam Noctes" G. W. Chadwick The Glee Club and Orchestra Prelude to "Oedipus Tyrannis" J. K. Paine '69 The Orchestra "Hallelujah Amen," from "Judas Maccabus" G. F. Handel The Glee Club and Orchestra
...program is as follows: "Ave Maria" (Opus 12) Brahms Sung by the Radcliffe Choral Society "Concerto for Piano in A-Major" Mozart Piano solo by Professor Ballantine "Suite for String Orchestra," from "Les Trois Chansons" Ravel Arranged by M. H. Holmes "Symphony in C-Major" Mozart...
...plucks out new melodies on a guitar. For this week's Inaugural he has written "The Franklin Delano Roosevelt March." Works of his which have been well received professionally include "The Oriental Suite" and "The Covered Wagon Suite." But he says: "I'm not a budding Mozart or Brahms. I don't claim genius." Last week politicians poked fun at one of the verses of his songs for children which goes...