Word: rachmaninoff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York six years ago the famous and unique Beethoven Society, the purpose of which is for the members to assemble at stated intervals to play and sing together for their own pleasure and the accruing artistic benefits. The membership includes such distinguished artists as McCormack, Kieisler, Heifetz and Rachmaninoff. Mr. Baner assisted the Club in a concert in New York last April during the Spring trip...
...Mackey 320,490 Edward B. McLean 255,729 Dwight W. Morrow 290,344 Pola Negri 15,108 Meredith Nicholson 1,586 Ignace Jan Paderewsky 16,161 Ann Pennington 1,641 Senator Lawrence Phipps 157,741 Mary Pickford 34,075 Col. William C. Proctor (Ivory Soap) 22,888 Sergei Rachmaninoff 8,026 John D. Rockefeller Sr 128,420 Theodore Roosevelt 1,061 Col. Jacob Ruppert 37,111 Babe Ruth 3,432 Mortimer L. Schiff 459,410 Charles Scribner 53,662 Zalmon G. Simmons (Beds) 250,378 Harry F. Sinclair 47,709 Governor Al Smith 0 Frank W. Stearns 43,156 James...
...symphony; MacDowell, To a Water Lily; Tchaikovsky, Pathetic Symphony; Grieg, Anitra's Dance from Peer Gynt; Suppe, Poet and Peasant Overture, Wagner march of the Knights from Parsifal; Liszt, Second Hungarian Rhapsody; Sibelius, Finlandia; Strauss, Blue Danube Waltz; Rossini, overture to William Tell; Rimsky-Korsakoff, Song of India; Rachmaninoff, C Sharp Minor Prelude; Handel, Largo; Rubinstein, Kammenoi Ostrow; Beethoven, overture to Egmont; Tchaikovsky, Slavic, March; Moszkowski, Serenade; Strauss, Egyptian March; Offenbach, Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman; Dvorak, Humoresque, Massenet, Aragonaise from Le Cid; Mascagni, intermezzo from Cavaleria; Paderewski, Minuet, Volga Boat Song; Mendelssohn, Spring Song; Schumann Traeumere; Tchaikovsky, Humoresque...
...Gongs; stern bells crash and roll in Tschaikowsky's 1812 Overture; sleigh bells jingle like hard, gay laughter in his Troika (Op. 37, No. 11); bells happily pious tinkle in the Celeste of Korngold's Die Tote Stadt; the profound and icy-hearted Kremlin bell booms in Rachmaninoff's Prelude (Op. 3, No. 2). Many are the other great composers who have written bell-music...
...Professor Saunders in Jefferson Physical Laboratory yesterday afternoon. Professor Saunders demonstrated a number of kinds of vibrations with his experimental apparatus in discussing the subject of "Vibrations". He showed a model of the action of the hammer in a piano and declared that anyone could duplicate the tones of Rachmaninoff or Paderewski if he only was able to press on the keys with the right amount of strength. The subject of his next lecture on Wednesday will be "Waves...