Word: scarlatti
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Last week his Parisian fans, overflowing onto the stage of the Theéátre des Champs Elysées, heard Virtuoso Segovia at his nimble-fingered best. Starting his program with a Bach fugue, he played transcriptions of works by Frescobaldi, Scarlatti, Haydn and Mozart, making his six-stringed instrument sound as brilliant as a harpsichord or as plaintive as a lute. When he concluded his program with music by Spanish Composers Albéniz and Granados, and the Italian, CastelnuovoTedesco, he was greeted with cries of "merci, merci" and "gracias," was shouted back for 15 curtain calls...
Works to be performed include Paul Hindemith's Abendkonzert: Trio fur Blockfloten, Frederic Chopin's Nocturne in G Minor, George Philip Telemann's Four Songs from Ausewahite Lieder, Alessandre Scarlatti's Sonata a Guettro, and the Trio Sonata in D by Johann Joachim Guautz. Twelve 'Cliffe students will participate in the program...
Soulima did not have much to work with. He had pieced together a score from his favorite Scarlatti sonatas for a revised version of Choreographer Antonia Cobos' middling success of 1944 and 1946, The Mute Wife. Even with Soulima's new-music, the new version was just middling. He had had less than two hours to rehearse the ballet orchestra, a part pickup outfit seldom two rungs better than a good firemen's band. And about the most charitable word the critics could find for the Ballet Russe's ragged performances was "drab...
...wife Franchise and son Jean, 4, only a few bars and beats away from Igor in Hollywood. But he has not yet found much time to visit with the man he usually refers to as "my father," but sometimes as "Stravinsky." He has been too busy "living with Scarlatti" (he will record some sonatas for Allegro records this week) and preparing for his first U.S. piano concert tour. All summer, he taught piano six hours a day at the Music Academy of the West, in Santa Barbara...
...have been back to Harvard many times since 1942. The most memorable visit occurred last spring when they played Bach, Scarlatti, and Mozart for three nights in a row. Schneider appeared by himself this fall to play, unforgettably, Bach's six sonatas for unaccompanied violin...