Word: respighi
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...Symphony. When the performance was ended the audience stayed to cheer but the conductor plucked at the concertmaster's sleeve, his cue for the players to clear the stage. For Toscanini, who scorns the dessert of applause, the evening ended with the last mighty unison of the Bach-Respighi Prelude & Fugue...
...build a chamber music hall in Washington, D. C. and to endow the Music Division of the Library of Congress. The hall cost her $94,000, the yearly endowment $25,000.* Washington festivals supplanted the ones in Pittsfield. There was new music by Ravel, Schönberg, Casella, Respighi, Stravinsky, Bloch. Mrs. Coolidge imported quartets from Europe-the Brosa from London, the Roth from Budapest, the Pro Arte from Belgium, the Busch from Germany. She organized the Elshuco Trio...
...consistently produced by the same conductor. Audiences have been bigger when guest conductors came to Cleveland, like Sir Hamilton Harty (who will guest conduct during Conductor Sokoloff's customary mid-season absence this year), Enrique Fernandez Arbos of Madrid, Bernardino Molinari of Rome, and Composers Igor Stravinsky, Ottorino Respighi, Maurice Ravel, Ernest Bloch. Pointing out that "under the devoted and skillful guidance of its conductor, it has become a seasoned and matured organization of the highest artistic excellence," a resolution prepared by Newton Diehl Baker provided that the Orchestra Company should be "free to investigate and experiment," to insure...
...Rome too Respighi was honored last week. Il Duce announced his election to the Royal Academy of Italy...
...Ricordi & Co. vigorously protects Respighi's music as it does that of the late Giacomo Puccini. Manhattan's Metropolitan has to pay $500 each time it puts on a Puccini work. Ricordi charged radio on an average of $5,000 apiece for the six Puccini operas sent over the air two seasons ago (TIME...