Word: soloiste
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Hindemith is very fond of the strings. Having been a viola player for years, with many concert appearances as soloist and as a member of the Amar String Quartet of which he was a co-founder, he has written several concertos for the instrument of his choice. And his composition for unaccompanied cello demonstrates a comprehensive if weird understanding of this medium...
Joseph F. Lautner '21, who is also taking the male lead in the production of Glucke's 'Alceste" at Wellesley, will assist them as soloist...
Tomorrow evening Dr. Koussevitzky will present the sixth concert in the Sanders Theater series. Elly Kassman will appear as soloist in Saint-Saens' Piano Concerto in G minor, the feature work of a program including Haydn's Symphony in E flat, No. 99, and two Ravel works: the Suite "Mother Goose," and the second suite from the ballet "Daphnis and Chloe...
Most symphonic conductors limit their public activity to conducting. It has been hinted that some are not good enough musicians to do anything else. A few, like the late Ossip Gabrilowitsch and the contemporary Jose Iturbi, have been even more famed as instrumental soloists than as orchestral maestros. Still fewer can, like Germany's Richard Strauss, combine the abilities of a brilliant conductor with those of an eminent composer. Burly, slope-shouldered Rumanian Georges Enesco, who replaced John Barbirolli last week as guest conductor of New York's Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, is probably the only famous musical figure...
...race of 7-ft. African giants living as feudal chiefs in what was formerly German Tanganyika. The Pygmies sing repetitious melodies in the manner of change-ringers, each one hooting his single note in turn. The Babira Negroes of the Ituri Forest punctuate the high-pitched gargling of their soloist with aggressive whoops. The Watusi Drummers hammer an intense counterpoint of rhythms more complicated than Gene Krupa's randiest rataplan...