Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frederic Shurtleff Coolidge, a recital of chamber music will be given in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock, by the Elshuco Trio of New York. This trio, composed of William Kroll, violinist, Willem Winneke, violoncellist, and Aurelio Giorni, pianist, has been highly praised by the metropolitan newspapers for its performances in New York...
Leopold Auer, 81, unrivaled violin teacher: "Like my friend, Pianist Hofmann, I have just become a U. S. citizen. By birth Hungarian, I became in 1883 a Russian subject, in 1895 hereditary Russian nobleman, and in 1903 Russian State Councilor. As soloist to the Tsar, I succeeded the great composer-violinist Wieniaw-ski, but my chief pride is that my pupils have included Elman, Zimbalist, Heifetz. I have lived in the U. S. since 1918, following the Russian Revolution...
...others, by most critics, are held to be Ignaz Jan Paderewski and Sergei Rachmaninov. Contemporary estimates, ever dangerous, might have to make room for Alfred Cortot; and Vladimir de Pachmann, admitted master interpreter of Chopin, yet lives. Of these careers, while Composer- pianist Paderewski's has been the most phenomenal, many people recall when Josef Hofmann, aged 11, his feet barely touching the pedals, was the U. S. musical sensation of the day (1887). Compelled by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children to withdraw, he studied under Anton Rubinstein, "lion with the velvet paw." His playing...
...first New York Symphony concert of the season. Mozart had the honor of beginning, with his energetic Symphony in D, cooked to order at his father's command to tickle the palate of a Salzburg burgomaster. Schumann was next with his Concerto in A Minor, with Pianist Alfred Cortot to spin the important thread cunningly. Then came a stranger, Jacques Ibert, with three pieces from his ballet suite, Les Rencontres, given its U. S. premiere a fortnight ago by the Boston Symphony. In conflicting keys, restless violins traced his vagaries of flower girls and Creoles in the Debussy manner...
...Boston, Ethel Leginska, one-time (TiME, May 3) disappearing pianist, led her new orchestra, the Boston Philharmonic, before fastidious New Englanders; received mingled irony and praise. As all admitted, it was the leader's orchestra, directed nerve on nerve to sheer hypnosis. In Liszt's Hungarian Fantasia, the piece de resistance, Miss Leginska played the piano part, leaving the orchestra, as critics commented, with no mother to guide it, in spite of which it revealed euphony, balance, potential flexibility. A tremendous handicap was the acoustics of Mechanic's Hall. Tumultuous applause from the conductor...