Word: rameau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the ranks of those who, sincerely or insincerely, see ecstatic visions at the drop of a Rameau and consider Liszt slightly indecent, it is considered not quite proper to approve of Vladimir Horowitz. They sneer at this programs and at his private life, and scrupulously avoid his concerts. The days of Von Bulow, Busoni, and Rachmaninoff are gone, and Horowitz, the virtuosa of the new technique, is something of an anachronism...
...present book is an autobiographical fragment in the same vein. The Blue Boy of the title is Giono himself. His father runs a little cobbler shop. His mother operates a small home laundry. Through neighbors he learns to distinguish Bach from Mozart, Scarlatti from Rameau. A strange, dark visitor to his father's shop gives him Hesiod, Homer and the Bible to read...
...Hungarian March, "Rakoczy"Berlioz *Ballet Suite Rameau-Motti Minuet from "Platee"--Musette Tambourin from "Fetes d'Hebe" *Scherzo from Octet Mendelssohn *Prelude to "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Wagner *Piano Concerto to No. 2, in F minor Chopin Soloist: ELIZABETH TRAVIS *"Show Boat," Selection Kern *Fugato on a Well-Known Theme McBride "Thunder and Lighting," Polka Strauss