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...Ernest Hutcheson of New York. After making her debut in Athens she played several times with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and has given recitals both here and abroad. As usual the affair will be open to members of Dunster House and their guests. The program follows: Chorale Bach Rondo in A minor Mozart Papillons Schumann Jeu D'Eau Ravel Poisson D'Or Debussy Berceuse Burlesque Tanzman
Manhattan last week was prepared for a major musical event-the first U. S. visit of Ildebrando Pizzetti, famed Italian composer, and the premiere of his Rondo Veneziano to be played by Conductor Arturo Toscanini after a 13-weeks' absence from the Philharmonic-Symphony. Composer Pizzetti had been widely heralded, his coming sponsored by Conductor and Signora Toscanini, by Italian Ambassador Nobile Giacomo de Martino, Metropolitan Opera Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Mrs. Otto Hermann Kahn, Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. His career had been extensively reviewed: Pizzetti is Parma-born, a musical critic, director of the Milan...
...despite all the advance notice there was nothing particularly momentous about Pizzetti's public reception last week. Toscanini blessed the Venetian Rondo with his full genius. It was clever, well-made picture music of pompous, aristocratic Venice and of Venice, roistering and plebeian. The audience applauded it cordially and Pizzetti, a little, worried-looking man, took bows from the stage. But on the same program Toscanini had placed Mozart's D Major Symphony. Wagner's Tannhauser overture and the skirling Bacchanale music, Borodin's Prince Igor dances. Because these things had greater substance, Toscanini attained with...
...World première of Pizzetti's Rondo Veneziano, to be played by New York Philharmonic Symphony orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; in Manhattan...