Word: piano
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program is as follows: French Suite in E major Bach F. W. Ramseyer 1G. Sonata for Piano and Violin Franck Willis Fay, M. H. Holmes '28 Air and Scherzo from Suite for Trumpet and Pianoforte Chalmers Clifton '12 E. B. Nichols 1G.B., Edward Ballantine '07 Sonata, C major Scarlatti The White Peacock Griffes Waldesrauchen Lisxt A. A. Landers '28 Two Sinfonias from Cantatas Bach C. S. Smith '27, Flute. E. B. Nichols 1G.B., Trumpet. Oliver Cope 3M., First Violin. A. MacKay-Smith 2L., Second Violin Paul Smith '25, Viola. John Benson '30, Cello...
...give a public performance in the Engineering Society Auditorium in Manhattan. Few composers, conductors, instrumentalists and singers have achieved mature fame but were "child prodigies" to start with. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart showed talent at 4, genius (in public) at 6, which was Josef Hofmann's age at his piano debut and Nellie Melba's when she first sang to Melbourne, Australia. Handel was skilled on the organ, Meyerbeer on the piano, Schumann at composing, Kreisler and Joachim on the violin, at 7. Eight-year-old Ottavio Gallo (above) has Bach and Paganini as precedents for his precocity. Chopin...
...reached a high pitch of vociferous enthusiasm, as these words of determined confidence rang out through the jammed room. Every inch of available floor space was covered by the surging flood of humanity which over-flowed onto chairs, tables, mantlepieces, and bookshelves. Windowsills were converted into benches and the piano into a grandstand, while one determined enthusiast was even found up the chimney...
...instant the air was electric. Then Ignace Jan Paderewski sat down at his piano and strummed the golden notes which all the world can but listen to and applaud. Baron Stonehaven, vexed, sat down. Next day His Excellency released to the press a letter to M. Paderewski in which the great Pole was formally rebuked for "insulting His Majesty the King as represented in the person of His Excellency the Governor General...
...program will be: Harvard March "Our Director" Bigelow Symphony No. 12 (B-flat Major) Haydn Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, opus 18 Rachmaninoff (First Movement--Moderato) Mr. Slontmsky, soloist Intermission Soprano Solos a. Recit et Air from "L'Eafant Prodigue". Debussy Mr. Slonimsky, conducting b. Impressions Slonimsky Le Fuite de la Lune Silhouettes Valse Lento Delibes La Fille du Regiment (entracte) Donizetti Rakoezy March (from "Damnation of Faust") Berlioz Fair Harvard