Word: piano
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...orchestra-just a piano is all the support which the Society of American Singers require in their series of performances of Mozart's charming opera, Cosi Fan Tutte. This is something of an innovation, and one that will gain the sympathy of people whose ears have had experience with bad orchestras. Sometimes during performances of the Wagnerian Festival Company, now on tour in this country, one wished that a skillfully played piano were in operation, rather than an atrocious orchestra. The Society of American Singers is an interesting organization. It is directed and financed by William Wade Hinshaw...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra will give its eighth Cambridge concert for 1922-23 in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. The soloist will be Miss Marjorie Church at the piano, while M. Pierre Monteux will lead. Tickets are on sale at the University Book Store, Harvard Square...
...century ago Jonas Chickering, then a mere lad, a blacksmith's son in New Hampshire, set to work in his own name as a maker of pianos. There were at his disposal very limited financial means and but a few simple tools, but there were also at his disposal pluck, resourcefulness, persistency, love of his work and inventive genius. With these he wrought a great and lasting American achievement. His was the brain from which sprang the conception, his was the hand that laid the foundation of the splendid American piano of today and of its triumph throughout...
...Arthur Whiting's last exposition will be given next Monday evening at the Paine Concert Hall in the Music Building. Mr. Whiting will accompany on the piano Mr. John Barclay, baritone. The selections will be taken from Italian, French, German, and Irish composers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...
...scholar, even an austere scholar, whose greatest devotion is unearthing gems out of the dust and debris of music. As an example: He is giving a year's work to the orchestration for performance of an opera of the old English composer, Purcell, of which only the piano score remains. The scholarship of the task lies in an inductive recreation of Purcell's instrumentation, such as may be determined from a study of the few scraps that remain of orchestra scores of that remote composer's other works. Bodanzky is, at the same time, the gayest...