Word: programs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usual, Mr. Chaliapin prepared no program in advance. Each song was announced by number from the stage, the numbers ostensibly corresponding to those in a printed wordbook previously distributed. The excellence of his renditions was in no way marred by the fact that the numbers often failed to correspond...
Bach. An all-Bach program is a rare and alarming event. To attempt such a thing shows moral heroism and crowning self-confidence. To attempt it successfully shows an amazing talent, a masterly technique. Harold Samuel, British apostle of Johann Sebastian Bach, showed all of those qualities at his first recital in Aeolian Hall...
...program was skillfully varied. After all, Bach may be Bach, but there is nothing notably narrow about his range. And Mr. Samuel suddenly woke Bach up. He has slumbered too long under the smothering solemnity of his acolytes. He has been too much studied and too much feared. Mr. Samuel is not at all afraid of him, yet lacks not a jot of respect for the genius of Leipsig. He treats him with skill, with feeling, with sympathy...
...program included one of the sel- dom-heard English suites, selections from the Well-Tempered Clavichord, the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue. There was even jollity in Mr. Samuel's rendition of the saraband of the English Suite...
Untaught by the burst of protest against Defense Day, President Coolidge has lent his support to a nearly identical program. Unchastened by the virtual fiasco of last September's celebration, he has endorsed in a letter whose enthusiasm is matched only by its length the proposed celebration of today as Navy Day. But the militaristic basis of the plan he concealed beneath a quite proper emphasis upon the peaceful achievements of the naval forces in exploration, charting, assisting commerce, mapping currents and winds; in sum, making the seas less the dreaded playground of unfamiliar forces...