Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gaping pocket of night, men played the harp-princes, captains, jongleurs, beggarmen. Their fingers wandered the strings, their heads bent to their music. Last week, the harp was played in Chicago. Enrico Tramonti, harpist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, was permitted by Conductor Frederick Stock to play a solo on his instrument. Widor's Chorale et Variations he played. It is a good piece of music, well adapted to harp and orchestra. Chicagoans listened with interest to this novelty. Sweet were the strains they heard, filled with all the dreaming melancholy, the tender elegance, of another day. Yet they...
...position of Conductor Stokowski. Novelty of this concert was the playing, for the first time in the U. S., of a violin concerto by Karol von Szymanowski which the composer dedicated to "mon ami," Violinist Paul Kochanski. Ami Kochanski was there himself, chin on instrument, to play the solo part...
Isadora Duncan, dancer and political revolutionist, came by air from Russia to Berlin, kept an audience waiting half an hour, apologized for orchestra, director, lack of rehearsal, one thing and another, danced Tchaikovsky Pathétique. After the performance, she said her days of solo dancing were over. Everyone agreed. Now she is going to undertake to pass on her torch. She will open a school in Berlin for children - children of the masses only. She expects about 500 pupils. Some 22 years ago, Miss Duncan first danced in Berlin. The Kaiser did not understand her art. She went...
...Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by William van Hoogstraten, brilliant conductor heard here to advantage last autumn in Tschaikovsky's "Pathetique" Symphony. The programme embraces Beethovea's Symphony No. 3 the "Erolea,"--Strausa's Salome's Dance and "Til Eulenspiegel," and Tschaikovsky's Second Piano Concerto with Yolanda Mero playing the solo part...
Bert Lowe's Orchestra and Bill Boyle's Copley Plaza Orchestra have been engaged for both evenings, and the famous Barbary Coast Jazz Band from Dartmouth will furnish specially acts on both evenings. An additional feature on tonight's program will be a solo dance by Miss Marion Randall, "Wildflower" star...