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...Philadelphia Orchestra has always been famously friendly with Pianist-Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. In 1920 it was the first U. S. organization to play his choral symphony The Bells. Blond-maned Leopold Stokowski used to hire Rachmaninoff often as guest soloist, liked to slap his back in public. In Philadelphia this season Stokowski led the orchestra through the world premiere of Rachmaninoff's Third Symphony, later took it to New York (TIME, Nov. 23, 1936). When, after 17 years absence. The Bells was again heard last week in Manhattan, the Philadelphia Orchestra, under new Conductor Eugene Ormandy, contrived its return...
Three works by modern Italian composers are also to be played: a "Prelude Glocosco" by Castagnone, Respighi's Toccata for Piano and Orchestra in which Mr. Mitropoulos will be the soloist, and the Second Suite from Alfredo Casella's opera, "La Donna Serpente...
...tutelage of Professor Richard Robert, he made his debut in Vienna. At 14 he began to study composition under Modernist Arnold Schonberg. He met Violinist Adolf Busch when he was 17, thenceforth appeared with him in chamber music recitals. He began to strike out for himself as a soloist in England. France, Switzerland. Holland, Italy, Spain. Austria. In 1933 the German Government refused to let Serkin, a Jew, play at the Brahms Centennial in Ham burg (TIME, May 1, 1933). Violinist Busch, an Aryan, withdrew too, took the young pianist to live with him in Basle. Year and a half...
...different tonalities to express the various episodes in the story. Also on the various episodes in the story. Also on the program is the 'Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.2 in D minor by the late nineteenth century American composer, Edward MacDowell, Mr. Howard Goding is to be the soloist. MacDowell, a pupil of Joachim Raff, wrote this work while staying at Wiesbaden in the summer of 1885, and although most of his compositions were in the line of tone painting, he deviated from his usual course in making this particular Concerto unrelated to any program material. Soon after...
...major is one of his more recent productions. Of the magnificent Brahms Symphony, little need be said except "Don't miss it!" During the holidays, the regular Friday and Saturday concerts fall on December 24 and 26, and January 1 and 2. Gregor Piatigorsky is to be the soloist at the former pair and Sergei Rachmaninoff at the latter...