Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston Women's Symphony Orchestra through the paces of its first concert. She played Weber's Oberon overture, Frederick Delius's C Minor Concerto, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Tschaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. The overture and the Tschaikovsky fragments were best: the concerto with Pianist Reginald Boardman for soloist was soso; but the splendor of the Beethoven was lost. It had slipped away between individual passages and spread into nothingness. The audience, however, was kind. Loudly it clapped the virtuosity of the 70 trim players, emphatically it approved the gesticulations of Conductor Leginska, gave...
...first magnitude so long as it can keep Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Last week he brought it eastward for its first Manhattan concert of the season, as conductor put it through the Don Juan of Richard Strauss and Brahms' First Symphony; gave his baton to Victor Kolar and turned pianist for Rachmaninoff's Second Concerto. Critics and audience alike had unqualified approval for Conductor-Pianist Gabrilowitsch, musician & poet, for the Detroit Symphony, waxing stronger each season. The verdict for the best orchestral demonstration of the season, however, remained unchanged, stayed with Sergei Koussevitsky and his Boston Symphony players...
...Philadelphia last week, Pianist Joseph Hofmann dedicated a new hall for the Curtis Institute of Music. Mrs. Edward W. Bok gave the money for the building, established besides an endowment fund of $12,500,000. Hidden from sight in the gray and white auditorium is a $50,000 pipe-organ given by Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, father...
...hall was named Casimir for Pianist Hofmann's father...
...feature of one of the series of regular Sunday evening entertainments which are given throughout the college year by the Union. A. W. Lind '29, violinist, and P. G. Anderson, Boston pianist, will give a joint concert for violin and piano on Sunday evening at 7.15 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union...