Word: partita
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...suspicion began to grow six weeks ago, however, when Fabien Sevitzky played Barrymore's Partita with the Indianapolis Symphony. And last week Eugene Ormandy led the Philadelphia Orchestra through a broadcast of Barrymore's In Memoriam, a warm, romantic, ingratiating tone poem dedicated to brother John. In connection with the broadcast, several hitherto unpublicized facts appeared: 1) Lionel Barrymore has been composing for the past 40 years; 2) he is as well acquainted with the techniques of composition as many a professional; 3) his unpublished compositions are numbered in the hundreds and include works for everything from solo...
Lionel Barrymore's pleasant symphonic Partita was played by Conductor Fabien Sevitzky and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, was well received by Indiana-politans. Said intense Russian Sevitzky (nephew of Boston's Serge Koussevitsky): "Barrymore has as much talent musically as he has dramatically." The actor started composing at 18, modeled his work after his idols Bach and Handel, in 1942 orchestrated McDowell's Sea Pieces (originally for piano). Said Barrymore of Sevitzky: "We don't know each other and yet are good friends. He sees me one day on the screen and I listen the next...
...Long Road. These manifestations were not spontaneous. They were the work of three well-disciplined underground movements, organized on a national scale, with astonishingly large followings among Italian workers. Last March representatives of these organizations-the liberal Partita d'Azione, the socialist and the communist parties-met to discuss a united underground front, later established a "Committee of Action for the Union of the Italian People...
...recital, which is free and open to the public will include Partita Sopra by Walther, Concerto in G By Vivaldi-Bach, and Toccata in F and Prelude and Fugue in E Minor by Bach...
...Yesterday, drinking coffee in a farm and listening to the radio, I heard the speaker say, 'And now you will hear Partita No. 1 by Bach played by Yehudi Menuhin,' and the music flew in that farm as some years before in the Opera House in Paris, or the Salle Pleyel. And I remembered your playing with Enesco and orchestra under direction of Monteux and the only remembrance of these souvenirs of mine was so hot, they swept away the winds in the country, the planes overhead, and the anti-aircraft engines, and the guns and all that...