Word: respighi
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...TIME, Nov. 1, (Music) page 21, it is stated that in San Francisco "the orchestra under Hertz direction played Respighi's 'Pines of Rome,' introducing in a symphony orchestra for the first time, so far as is known, a phonographic record of a nightingale's song...
...Rochester, the Philharmonic Orchestra gave its opening concert. At just the appointed time Conductor Eugene Goossens, trimmest of all conductors, sent floating through the spaces of the Eastman Theatre the honest harmonies of Weber's Oberon Overture, the enchanted woods of Debussy's L'Apres-Midi, Respighi's Concerto Gregoriano, new to Rochester, stately, breathing the musty grandeur of old cathedrals and shufffling monks. Rochester applauded it courteously. Rochester saved its loudest approval for Tchaikovsky's Pathetique, after its awful pessimism had finally been led by the cellos and the big basses into a despair...
...Francisco, Conductor Alfred Hertz led the first program of the San Francisco Symphony, chose Schumann's "First Symphony," Sibelius' "Swan of Tuonela" and Respighi's "Pines of Rome" for his first offerings. San Franciscans were well pleased, applauded especially the "Pines of Rome," new there. A phonograph record, that of a nightingale's song, was introduced for the first time, so far as is known, in a symphony orchestra...
...Cleveland Orchestra, Nikolai Sokolov, conductor, will give 65 concerts beginning Oct. 21. Among the soloists will be Elsa Alsen, Alfred Cortot, Lucrezia Bori, Ruth Breton, John Charles Thomas, Respighi, Josef Szigeti, Dusolina Giannini, Efrem Zimbalist, Harold Bauer...
...this, two cups of that, a tablespoon of something else, a pinch of salt?and a chef has mixed a cake. A Beethoven symphony or perhaps a Haydn, a bit of de Falla or maybe Respighi and a portion of Wagner?and a symphonic conductor has made up his program. And just as one chef is famed for his pastry, the next one for his meats, so is it natural for one conductor to excel in one style of music, be it classic, romantic or modern...