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Lastly, Moye pays tribute to our century's greatest cellist by filling out the disk with three short works associated with Casals: the Siloti transcription of the second movement from Bach's organ Toccata, Adagio and Fugue, and Casals' own arrangement of the ever-lovely Faure song "Apres un reve," both of which demonstrate Moye's marvelous legato bowing; and the dashing encore piece Requiebros that was written for and dedicated to Casals by his one-time student Gasparo Cassado...
...back in Town Hall, where her fans were so mu sic hungry that extra chairs had to be put on the stage for the audience. Dressed in regal black, Pianist Novaë's floated her music from the first pearly notes of a Bach-Siloti Prelude, gathered excitement with Beethoven's "Waldstein" and steeped Schumann's Kinderscenen and three Chopin pieces in reflective romanticism. She wound up with three works by her prolific countryman, Villa-Lobos. When the stormy applause finally abated, Guiomar Novaë's got ready to go home for a family Christmas...
...citizens who stay away from concerts, the best-known high-brow composer now living is probably Russian-born Sergei Vassilievich Rachmaninoff. His crashing Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, first introduced to the U. S. in 1898 by his friend Pianist Alexander Siloti, immediately started to outsell Tin Pan Alley's song hits, has rolled up a total of some 5,000,000 copies. In 1909, when 36-year-old Rachmaninoff made his U. S. debut as a concert pianist, the "Flatbush* Prelude," as it was then known, had made his exotic name familiar to U. S. lips...
Right-Mischa Levitzki, Karl Friedberg, Ernest Hutcheson, Alexander Siloti and Elly...
...five concerts in Symphony Hall begins next Sunday afternoon with Titta Ruffo, the famous baritone. The dates of the other concerts, all on Sunday afternoons, are as follows: November 5, Sophie Braslau, contralto, and Emilio de Gogorza, baritone; January 28, Frances Alda, soprano of the Metropolitan, and Alexander Siloti, planist: February 18, Alfred Cortot, French planist, and Jacques Thibaud, a violinist fully appreciated only by a small but discriminating public; and on a date to be announced later, John McCormack, popular Irish tenor...