Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Playing selections from Brahms, Hindemith, and Debussy, the Chardon String Quartet will give a concert tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the Music Building...
...Liszt *Ballet Suite from "Aida" Verdi Sacred Dance of the Priestesses--Danco of the Little Black Slaves--Ballabile *"Pop Goes the Weasel" Cailliet *"Rhapsody in Blue" Greshwin Soloist: LEO LITWIN *"Lagunen," Waltzes Strauss Pavane Gould *Aragonaise from "The Cid" Massenet *Selections checked (*) are available on record at Briggs & Briggs Music C311store, Harvard Square...
Often in the history of music, men of considerable artistic stature are lost to view in the shadow of a contemporary titan who dominates his period to the exclusion of all lesser figures. With Bach and Handel towering over them the lesser composers of the early 18th Century have been almost entirely obscured. Vivaldi, Corelli, Teleman, Rosenmuller and Rameau are only a few of the composers of this period whom the average concert-goer classifies--if at all--as "like Bach, but not as good...
...form and gift for thematic invention admired even by Bach who borrowed extensively from his works. The Longy School faculty concert tonight at Agassiz Theatre will present Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"--decidedly worth hearing as a typical example of the formal clarity and facility of this less familiar music of the age of Bach and Handel...
...musicology must go a great deal of the credit for this revival of works of undeservedly neglected composers. To it also must go much credit for the rebirth of great bodies of musical literature--the medieval music of the Roman Catholic Church, for instance. American musicology, in the person of Carleton Sprague Smith, is making an attempt to revive another little known type of church music, the psalm tunes of early America. In his lecture at Paine Hall last Friday he began a discussion of the 17th Century Calvinist setting of these psalms. Mr. Smith, who is by no means...