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...same evening in Jordan Hall the Cecilia Society will sing choral numbers from Ravel, Borodin, Griog and Bantock, Mr. Smalley, the cellist, will assist...
Friday, December 28, the Boston Symphony Orchestra gave one of the most interesting concerts of its, season to date. The program included Bliss's Color Symphony, Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe, and a Boccherini 'Cello Concerto played by Mr. Casals, played with great refinement and breadth of bowing, and warm fulness of tone, tho' with none too accurate intonation, at times. Bliss's Symphony is not propaganda music, but it might well be. Through three movements, "Purple," "Blue," "Red," it is highly impressionistic. In the last, Mr. Bliss throws down the gauntlet to the theorists and with a magnificent fugue...
...tonight in the Paine Music Building Mr. Arthur Whiting will give the second of his expositions of Chamber Music. He himself will play the following program on the pianoforte: Schumann 1810-1856 Phantasie, C. major. Opus 17 Debusay 1862-1918 La Cathedral engioutie Ravel 1817 Valses Nobles of Sentimentales Bach 1685-1750 Pretude-Sarabande-Bourree From English suite. A minor, transcribed for the pianoforte by Mr. Arthur Whiting. Chopin 1869-1849 Noeturne, D. flat. Opus 27 Polonaise. A flat. Opus...
...that instrument. Among them are the Schumann Phantiasie, one of the most important works of the romantic school; Debussy's "Submerged Cathedral" which is a striking illustration of descriptive music, impressive and poetical; and several Chopin numbers, examples of the most idiomatic treatment of the modern key-board instrument. Ravel's "Vaalses nobles at sentimentales" show the modern method of tone-color, and Mr. Whitings's own transcription of Bach's English suite in A minor, originally written for the harpsichord, is a pianoforte rendering of that music...
...close, Mr. Monteux played Ravel's "Choreographic Poem" the Waltz, with an understanding and sympathy which wholly redeemed the less interesting parts of the concert. Ravel is beyond description--certainly the master-satirist of music. Humor, subtlety, musical virtuosity; all are his. Listening, the Boston audience ponders solemnly, frowning on those who see the point...