Word: sinfonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Symphony concerts of Friday, November 15, and Saturday, November 16, the program is: Spohr's "Nocturne and Turkish Music for Wind Instruments", "Burma" and "Java" by Eichheim, and Strauss' "Sinfonia Domestica...
...Walton, Sinfonia Concertante, for Orchestra with Pianoforte...
...historian, "there was a flutter of wrath among those who had hoped that the new Empire was to be Republican. But it quickly passed away; and no French man, except perhaps Carnot, made so manly a protest as the man of genius at Vienna who had composed the 'Sinfonia Eroica' and, with a grand republican simplicity inscribed it, 'Beethoven a Bonaparte'. When the master heard that his former hero had taken the imperial crown, he tore off the dedication with a volley of curses on the renegade and tyrant; and in later years he dedicated the immortal work...
...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...
...Philharmonic. Eager ears have finally been greeted by the first orchestral music of the season. The first to break the summer's silence was Mr. Van Hoogstraten with the Philharmonic. The major feature of the program was the Sinfonia Drammatica of Ottorino Respighi. Signer Respighi has hitherto been known as the composer of the agreeable Fontane di Roma. His latest offering, while it has never before been heard in Manhattan, actually was composed before the other, and shows it. It is an effective com- position, but with traces of immaturity and it is unhappily reminiscent. There is Tchaikovsky...