Word: musician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...musical bills for the week hold the name of Albert Spaulding. This violinist is a musician of steady growth. He seems constantly deepening in warmth and musicianship...
...years ago Mr. Moiseiwitsch showed what a superb musician he is by playing the Schumann A minor concerto; yesterday he proved himself an equally fine technician in the Russian Teherepnins concerto. Particularly in whispered passages, Mr. Moiseiwitsch's tone seems unexcelled; in forte passages his (or the piano's) tone was less sympathetic. The orchestral parts of the concerto were not startling...
Yesterday's Symphony concert, Mr. Monteux conducting, was the second of the Boston series. As often, the eagerly-awaited proved disappointing in the extreme; what was expected to be dull and prosaic was interesting and charming. The Dvorak of the F-major symphony shows himself a skillful musician, interesting if not thrilling, original if not "radical", pleasing if not powerful--altogether charming. Particularly in the first three movements did he display his fertile imagination, flowing melodic invention, and dainty skill in orchestration. There is a cleanness and purity that resembles Mozart, with none of the muddiness which occasionally mars...
...course of a century and a half America has produced many eminent men of letters, but no musician who ranks with Beethoven, Liszt, or Debussy. The only American composer who has any claim to rank with the great masters of Europe, Edward MacDowell, has received the same reception in this country as several of our foremost literary men,--that of being criticised by unappreciative inferiors or of being ignored completely. It is, therefore, with interest that we read in an editorial in the New York Times that the Trustees of the American Academy in Rome have added musical composition...
...list of candidates. Nine of the twenty are lawyers, one of them being also in government service. Three are business men; two are physicians, one of them being also a university professor; one is a college president; one a clergyman and headmaster. There are also one architect, one musician, one social worker, and one author...