Word: scriabine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give its first Manhattan concert on Oct. 14. Mr. Mengelberg's novelties will include Howard Hanson's Pan and the Priest, a tone poem for violin and orchestra by Templeton Strong, U. S. composer living in Geneva (Josef Szigeti, soloist); the first performance of Scriabin's piano concerto (Gitta Gradova, soloist); a fantasy by Darius Milhaud for piano and orchestra; Szymanowski's Third Symphony; J. C. Bach's Sinfonia; Bloch's Israel, Honegger's Tempest overture; Pfitzner's three preludes from Palestrina and a De Falla composition for piano and orchestra...
Friday afternoon and Friday evening in Symphony Hall, the last of this season's coreerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Koussevitzky conducting. The programme embraces Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 for String Orchestra, his Adagio from the Toccata in C major. Scriabin's "Prometheus," Debussy's "Clouds" and "Festivals," and Borodin's Polootsian dances from "Prince Igor...
...wanted to indicate a sudden pianissimo, he shot his left hand into the air, palm flat, in the way of one who hoists a heavy tray or thrusts a torch aloft. For the rest, his gestures were continent. He led Debussy's Nuages; Honegger's Pacific 231, Scriabin's Poem of Ecstacy. Like a storm of white hail came the clapping. With inexorable courtesy, Koussevitzky bowed and bowed...
Wednesday afternoon, at the Women's Republican Club a concert of pieces for the piano by Mme. Lydia Kniagevitch and of songs by Marizita Williamson. The piano pieces include selections from Borodin, Glinku, Rachmaninoff and Scriabin and the vocal music likewise comes from the Russians...
...hunter after talent and a friend of young composers. He introduced Paris to the works of several excelIent musician, hitherto unheard-of; his wife, known as one of the most charming women in Moscow, shared this interest. To her were dedicated the works of such young Russians as Scriabin and Stravinsky. With bread and meat she fed the inspiration of more than one hungry genius who discovered, during the War, that Art was long and food was short...