Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pianist, Arthur Rubinstein, who returns to America in the Fall, recently played a program of new piano works in Paris. The music, all of the most modern variety, included a sonata, Petrouschka, by Strawinsky. The piece is founded on the ballet, Petrouschka. Rubinstein, who is a subtle minded student in addition to his musicianship, has ideas to expound as well as music to play. He tells you, for instance, and with ardent seriousness, that musicians have a sixth sense...
...David Sequeira y. Bermudez, of Madrid, the famous composer and pianist, will give a recital and lecture in English on Spanish music Monday evening at 8 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House. The recital is under the auspices of the Circulo Espanol and will be open to all members of the University. The program will be the same that has been given at Fontaineblean and before the royal family at Madrid...
...Sequeira is well known as a pianist and composer, having been recently awarded the Cross of Charles III by King Alfonso of Spain for his original compositions. Born at Bluefields, Nicaragua, Sr. Sequeira became Nicaraguan consul in Boston, which position be still holds. He graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music and was a member of the faculty of this institution until a few years ago. He resigned in order to go to Spain with the special purpose of acquainting the Spanish public with Latin American musical motives in which he has been specializing and at the same time...
During one of his early tours of the United States, Paderewski played a concert at San Jose, California. Two ambitious students at Leland Stanford University managed the recital. They had guaranteed the pianist $2,000. The affair was not much of a success. Only a small audience appeared. The box office receipts were only $1,600. The two despairing students went to the pianist's secretary, and, in tones of anguish, told him that they could turn over only the $1,600 at the moment, but that they would pay the other $400 if they were given a little...
...most interesting and unusual artists appeared in a joint concert at Detroit last week, Eva Gautbier, soprano, and E. Robert Schmitz, pianist. Both of these artists are notable for giving novel and even startling programs in which the shocks of modernistic composition are prominent. Their list of songs and piano pieces in Detroit did not undershoot expectations...