Word: schumann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schumann: Concerto in A Minor for Piano and Orchestra (Myra Hess with an orchestra conducted by Walter Goehr; Victor: 8 sides). Finest recording to date of a popular Romantic masterpiece...
...late Edvard Hagerup Grieg of Norway, whose best biography to date was published last fortnight.* Born in 1843, while Norway was the weaker partner in a union with Sweden, Composer Grieg spent his student days in Germany, where he was influenced by the music of German Romantics Schumann and Mendelssohn. But all his classical musical education could not drive the smell of Norway's fishing boats and pine forests out of Grieg's nostrils. His music, delicately flavored with the weedy condiments of Norwegian folk song, soon won him world fame. By the time he was 60 even...
Kirsten Flagstad (Sat. 11:57 p. m. NBC-Red, Blue) sings Silent Night to carry on the annual tradition set by the late, great Ernestine Schumann-Heink...
...have seen the light. First to be delivered, the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians* was proudly fathered by Albert E. Wier with the collaboration of a 14-man editorial staff. A bouncing, 8¼-lb. infant, Wier's Encyclopedia made a few natural messes (misplaced Composer Robert Schumann, killed off very-much-alive Soprano Claire Dux), but otherwise bawled informatively along through 2,089 pages. In any ordinary year Editor Wier's weighty off spring might have taken first prize. But this week another lusty 8-lb. volume, The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians...
Then follow a number of movements from Schumann's "Carnaval," a set of short piano pieces here given in a workmanlike, never unduly colorful orchestration made by Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov, Liadov, and Nicolas Chereprin for the Russian Ballet. The most pleasant piece, "Reconnaissance," is omitted; but the rest is good to hear nevertheless. The final march in three-quarter time may puzzle some people...