Word: rachmaninoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jaroff. Little Jaroff had once been a pupil of Composer Serge Rachmaninoff. He could write down music from memory when, as in most cases, there was no music to be had. By the time the Don Cossacks were transported to Bulgaria their chorus was so good that it was engaged to sing in a Greek Orthodox Church in Sofia. In 1923 it gave its first formal concert in Vienna, has since sung some 1.800 times throughout Europe, the British Isles, Australia...
...socialite and mother of a second Stokowski daughter, Luba. From a simple, naive person he has changed to one who is autocratic, imperiously sure of his countless opinions on acoustics, lighting, radio, printing, painting, the habit of applause (TIME, Nov. 18). At a recent rehearsal he and Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff almost came to blows over the tempo of a Rachmaninoff concerto concerning which Stokowski felt he knew better than the composer. Indicative, too, is the feeling of his men, changed now from one of adoration to respect. The Philadelphia Orchestra has no baseball team...
Schumann's Carnaval by Sergei Rachmaninoff (Victor, $6.50)?Miniature portraits of people and situations at a costume ball. Lightly and charmingly played by Pianist Rachmaninoff...
...Archer '30, Tenor Soloist 6. Russian Fantasy arr. by Lange A Little Kiss Each Morning Woods Gold Coast Orchestra 7. Ein Karleksmatt 1 Barcelona Lindberg Selections from "Pinafore" Sullivan Mandolin Club 8. Harvard Club Special R. G. Edwards '31 and G. W. Briggs '31 9. Glorious Forever Rachmaninoff Old Man Noah arr. by Bartholemew The Longshoreman Chesham
...time top-fee artist definitely to hold his own is Violinist Fritz Kreisler. In the U. S. as the world over he stays the greatest drawing card. Second to him in the U. S. this year have presumably been Negro Tenor Roland Hayes and the Dancer Argentina. Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff also commands top prices, full houses, but he gives few concerts now. Young Yehudi Menuhin is in his class...