Word: oskar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tone is finished, of great purity. Some critics pronounced him greater than Yehudi Menuhin. All considered him more important than the season's other violin prodigies?Giula Bustaba, 12, of Chicago, who learned the violin's four strings by means of color: Bennie Steinberg, 12, of Baltimore; Oskar Shumsky, 12, of Philadelphia...
MOUSSORGSKY-Oskar von Riesemann, translated by Paul England-Knopf...
Modest Petrovitch Moussorgsky wrote other music than Boris Godounov. Yet so little is known of it, so little of the man himself, that to many the new biography by Oskar von Riesemann will be news entirely. The story is of a young aristocrat who left military service to become a government clerk that he might have more time for music. Borodin remembered him in the early days as a foppish fellow who played bits from Trovatore and Traviata but that pretty stage passed swiftly. A peasant streak came out. Moussorgsky loved Russia and its history. He loved the people...
Already this season having kept their time & wits to the visiting leadership of visiting Frit?, Busch, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Arthur Rodzinski, Evgene Goossens, Maurice Ravel-the facile musicians of the New York Symphony Orchestra last week beat, blew & bowed to the conducting of Oskar Fried, guest from Berlin on his first conductorial visit...
...less skilled in the art of the orchestra was Enrique Fernandez Arbos from Spain, who followed Oskar Fried in leading the orchestra. His also was his first visit as a conductor, although 25 years ago he had been concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. From Boston he had been called to become permanent director of the Madrid Symphony Orchestra, then a ragged organization of men who played, well and seldom, music of all nations but Spain. That was because for 12 years foreign guest conductors had been hired, who had no interest, no experience with indigenous music...