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Miss Steiner played the Concerto for Cello by Saint-Saens, and Lubow performed Franz Liszt's Concerto for Piano No. 1 in E flat. Judges for the competition, which was held in Payne Hall, were Attilio Poto, Sodality conductor, Walter H. Piston, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, and Gregory Tucker...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra will honor Walter H. Piston, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, by playing for the first time a new Piston symphony in the Orchestra's 75th anniversary concerts on Nov. 25 and 26. Piston was commissioned by the BSO to write his Symphony No. 6 especially for the anniversary concerts...
...known outside an energetic circle of highbrow musicians, but he is one of the most promising U.S. composers. At 35 he has won his share of prizes, among them a $5,000 award from the University of California, a National Institute of Arts and Letters award, a Walter W. Naumburg Foundation award, two Guggenheim fellowships, the imposing New York Music Critics Circle award...
...returned to a half-filled Carnegie Hall for his 30th anniversary concert and was greeted by a standing ovation; promising Latvian Pianist Herman Codes, 32, making his New York debut; and Negro Soprano Georgia Laster, 27, whose Town Hall recital was her prize as a winner of the Naumburg Musical Foundation contest...
...young soprano was earning her living as a singer in Canada when she won a Naumburg Award to cover the cost of a Manhattan debut last year. In December, she gave a Town Hall recital that won her enthusiastic reviews. That did it. She was signed up for a U.S. tour for next season and got a tryout with Toscanini. He was murmuring "Brava" before she had gone very far, "Bravissima...