Word: mozart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Imperial Opera in St. Petersburg, stayed there until the Revolution. He did not settle again in Russia until last year. When Conductor Coates arrived in Manhattan last month he seemed thoroughly Russianized, voluble in praise of Soviet music. He talked of 21-year-old Dmitri Shostakovitch ("marvellous, a second Mozart!"), Tchoporin the lawyer, who had written an "absolutely remarkable" Soviet Symphony, Nikolai Miaskovsky whose Twelfth Symphony contrasts the new Russia with...
...with the Glee Club. Tonight's program, like former ones opens with the Harvard Hymn, a composition by Paine. The other numbers on the program are, Give a Rouse, Bantock; Adoramus Te, Palestrina; Gently, Johnny, My Jingalo; The Foggy Dew; Spanish Ladies; English Folk Songs; O Isis and Osiris, Mozart; Choruses from the "Mikado," Sullivan...
...deserted Butterfly, was a capitalist. All religious music is banned. Spirituals are popular but Russians hear them only after references to the Lord are eliminated. A performance of Haydn's Creation was forbidden even after new words were written. The music stayed essentially religious. A concert dedicated to Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven was advertised lately as "The Dawn of Industrial Capitalism." When Dancer Ruth Page was in Moscow last year the Government asked her to come on stage riding a tractor, waving a red flag...
Ethel Leginska still plays the piano far better than most members of her sex. With her new-founded orchestra last week, she played Mozart's A Major Concerto, bent low over the keys one minute, stood up the next, urging her women to keep to the brisk pace she had set for them. Her showmanship captivated a great audience. Critics thought that her players, considering their inexperience, responded very creditably to her tense, determined leadership...
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