Word: schumann
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago Mr. Moiseiwitsch showed what a superb musician he is by playing the Schumann A minor concerto; yesterday he proved himself an equally fine technician in the Russian Teherepnins concerto. Particularly in whispered passages, Mr. Moiseiwitsch's tone seems unexcelled; in forte passages his (or the piano's) tone was less sympathetic. The orchestral parts of the concerto were not startling...
Madame Matzenauer, one of the returning artists, is favorably remembered for her rendition of songs by Brahms, Schumann, Wagner, and Schubert when she sang with the Orchestra three years ago., Alfred Cortot, of crisp and crystal tone, played the third Beethoven Concerto in C-minor at the concerts in the season of 1919-1920, when Albert Spalding also played the Dvorak violin concerto. Moiseiwitsch, whose "discovery" was the sensation of the year in 1920, played the Schumann concerto in A-minor two years ago. Most of the other soloists are old friends to the regular concert-goers: Suffice...
...anyone who noted the bulging entrances and carefully packed stairways of the Paine Concert Hall, night before last, is ready to swear that the appreciation of the fine arts is not confined to the indeterminate outside public or the students of Music 4. The day when Beethoven and Schumann are preferred to Irving Berlin, when the ethereal troops of fantastic actors become more real in their symphonic exits and entrances than those of the Music Box Revue,--but no, there is a limit even to predictions...
...first of these will be held tomorrow evening at 8.15, when the Wendling Quartet from Stuttgart, Germany, composed of Mr. Carl Wendling, first violin, Mr. Hans Michaelio, second violin, Mr. Philip Nuter, viola, and Mr. Alfred Saal, violoncello, will play. The program is as follows: Quartet in A major, Schumann Quartet in G minor, Debussy Quartet in E minor, Beethoven...
Tomorrow morning Dr. Davison will play the "Finale" from Franck. Sketch, Schumann "Sleepers Wake!" Karg-Elort