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...Ravel, Orchestral Excerpts from "Daphnis et Chloe...
...program is as follows: Le reville-matin Couperin Le bavolet flottant Couperin Rondo alla Turca Mozart Variations serieuses Mendelssohn Fourth Sonata Scriabine Rigaudon, from "Le tombeau de Couperin" Ravel Alborada del graciosco Chopin Nocurne Chopin Deux ecossaises Chopin Hungarian Rhapsody number 13 Liszt
Musicians. Having arrived from Poland, England, France and Italy, four distinguished musicians loomed, last week, in the U. S. They are: 1) Ignace Jan Paderewski; 2) Sir Thomas Beecham, leader of the London Symphony orchestra, guest conducting for the New York Philharmonic; 3) Maurice Ravel, renowned French composer, guest conducting for the Boston and other Symphonies; and 4) Bernardino Molinari, conductor of the famed Augusteo Orchestra at Rome, who will lead the St. Louis Symphony through a series of 15 concerts. Boasted the great Molinari: "In Rome I have 90 sopranos and 70 contraltos always available...
Boston had the honor last week of being first to entertain Maurice Ravel, French composer, come for his first U. S. visit. She received him royally, gave him her best when she put her Symphony at his disposal, turned out then in great numbers to hear him conduct his own works in a manner almost as gratifying as their own Koussevitzky's. Manhattan heard him next and as pianist under the auspices of her pro-musica society. She rose to her feet when he came on the stage?a slight, aristocratic figure with graying hair. She listened to a program...
...Maurice Ravel heads the list of contemporary French composers. He was born in a mountain village near the Spanish border, went early to Paris, where the music of the Parisians took possession of his soul. The War also took him and made him a truck-driver...