Word: pianiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...musical events, for which there is hardly space to do more than mention, are taking place over the weekend. This afternoon in Jordan Hall at 3 o'clock, Mischa Levitzki, a noted though young pianist, will give a recital of Beethoven, Schumann, Chop n and others. Tomorrow at 3.30 in Symphony Hall, Pablo Casals, the greatest living master of the violoncello, will perform a Sonata of Bach in G. major; a Sonata in D major by Locatelli, our eighteenth century composer; Beethoven's great 'cello Sonata in A major and an Adagio and Allegro by Schumann...
Entirely aside from the program which this, the oldest musical organization in America will present, the concert interest in the fact that Miss Ethel Leginska will act as guest conductor. As a pianist, Miss Leginska is in the foremost ranks of musicians; as a conductor she instills into the orchestra under her baton something of that inexplicable power which makes for life in a piece of music without attendant loss in its character. Of the program, two numbers chosen from a large group of excellent compositions, seem to deserves especial mention the concrete of Grieg and the Marche Hongroise...
...class Londoners go for weekends, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was born in 1872. At eleven he was a musical phenomenon; he played the piano in a concert with his sister. Also he wrote. Also he drew. Also he sold insurance. Friends, seeing that he was too lazy to be a pianist, begged him to take up art. He was encouraged by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Puvis de Chav annes. He borrowed from Japanese art its use of the single line and its penchant for ornamental perversions. He dressed neatly in an ordinary fashion. He read everything. He learned quickly...
...Bauer is a very well-known pianist who founded in New York six years ago the famous and unique Beethoven Society, the purpose of which is for the members to assemble at stated intervals to play and sing together for their own pleasure and the accruing artistic benefits. The membership includes such distinguished artists as McCormack, Kieisler, Heifetz and Rachmaninoff. Mr. Baner assisted the Club in a concert in New York last April during the Spring trip...
...Frederic Francois Chopin (1810-49) famed pianist and composer, born at Zelazowa-Wola, near Warsaw, son of a French father and a Polish mother. At 15 he published his first composition. At 21 he was already great among such great musicians as Mendelssohn, Liszt; soon outranked them. At 27 he began his curious and celebrated intimacy with Amandine Dudevant ("George Sand"). When he died, at 39, after having composed some 200 major works, his stupendous funeral at Paris was but a feeble tribute to his genius...