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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Serge Prokofieff, famed Russian modernist composer, has a scunner against Boston. Seven years ago, when his Fourth Symphony was premièred there, supercilious Bostonians pooh-poohed it, critics even dared to suggest that it was written in too much of a hurry. Last week blond, lumbering Prokofieff, guest-conducting the Boston Symphony, evened the score. "If the public in Boston cannot understand my serious music," said irate Composer Prokofieff, "I'm going to give them simple things." One of the simple things was his Peter and the Wolf, a musical fairy tale written to teach the various sounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Young Russia | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...Rappaport died before his play was produced, but he left the rights to it in trust for the poor of Warsaw's ghetto. Last week, for the benefit of Polish Jews, Manhattan cinemagoers paid as high as $10 a seat to see The Dybbuk's U. S. premiére as a motion picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 7, 1938 | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...lightened her voice so that, when Conductor Bruno Walter heard it, he gave her small lyric soprano parts at the Charlottenburg Opera. After her accidental discovery of C in altissimo, Soprano Sack perfected her coloratura. When, as a member of the able Dresden Opera, she sang in the world première of Richard Strauss's Schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman), and later in a revival of his Ariadne Auf Naxos, Composer Strauss wrote in extra fioriture for her nimble vocal chords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sack in Alt | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...Menuhin recently announced he would play the world premiere of Robert Schumann's lost violin concerto in St. Louis on Nov. 12 (TIME, Aug. 23). At his summer home in Los Gatos, Calif. Violinist Menuhin last week received the following cable from Germany: "German Government decided today world premiére performance Schumann Concerto can only take place at official anniversary Reichskulturkammer, Berlin, Nov. 13. All previously announced first performances elsewhere with piano accompaniment must be postponed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 4, 1937 | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

Henderson came by his music naturally. His father was a theatrical producer who put on U. S. premières of Gilbert & Sullivan at the old Fifth Avenue Theatre. Ettie Henderson, his mother, was an ac tress, playwright and musician. She taught her son to sing and play when he was only seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Silenced Oracles | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

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