Word: rachmaninoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent productions. Of the magnificent Brahms Symphony, little need be said except "Don't miss it!" During the holidays, the regular Friday and Saturday concerts fall on December 24 and 26, and January 1 and 2. Gregor Piatigorsky is to be the soloist at the former pair and Sergei Rachmaninoff at the latter...
...Rachmaninoff Recital...
...Sergei Rachmaninoff, the noted Russian composer, conductor, and pianist, is to give a recital in Symphony Hall on Sunday afternoon. His program includes four of his own Etudes Tableaux, Beethoven's Sonata Opus 109, several Chopin numbers, and Liszt's Rhapsody...
Twenty-seven years ago a lean, gloomy Russian with a long face and convict haircut heard his Prelude in C-sharp Minor crash across the U. S. on a thousand pianos and make him famous. Long before that time Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff had been charming Europe with his brooding, regretful compositions, bewildering concertgoers with his speed and skill on the piano. But one ambition, to write a great symphony, he had not achieved. His First Symphony, in 1897, fell so flat that he needed a hypnotist to restore his nerve. His Second, in 1908, fared better, was praised...
...Rachmaninoff Third, when it came, did not impress critics any more than it had in Philadelphia at its world premiere last fortnight. The choir of strings sang out lovely melodies, the instrumentation was competent, but the work as a whole was disorganized. Decided the Herald Tribune's Lawrence Gilman: "It has much of his familiar quality-his blend of sombre brooding and lyrical expansiveness and defiant gaiety. But the eminent Russian has said most of it before, in substance, and has said it with more weight and felicity and salience." The Times's Olin Downes proposed: "Would...