Word: sonata
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spook Sonata. August Strindberg, Eugene O'Neil, Robert Edmond Jones, Kenneth MacGowan and Clare Eames contributed their considerable capabilities toward the production of this play. When it was all over and the curtain down, the rest of the group might well have turned and leveled accusing fingers at Strindberg. He wrote a play which is virtually incomprehensible. Various supernatural beings assemble and a certain villainous ancient is strangled by a mummified old woman. In the final act the hero admonishes the audience to be good because man's sins will seek him out. While the moral is clear...
This evening, in Jordan Hall, Mr. Cyrus Ullian offers a program, including Beethoven's Sonata for Piano, op. 109, and sundry pieces of Chopin, Liszt, Granados and Albeniz...
Saturday afternoon, in Jordan Hall, Mr. Ernesto Berumen will give an interesting program, including the "Fantasia-Sonata (after a reading of "Dante") by Liszt, and Charles Griffes' excellent "White Peacock". Mr. Moriz Rosenthal, absent from Boston for seventeen years, will return and play in Symphony Hall on Sunday afternoon. Messrs. Maier and Pattison, Mme. Gauthier, Mr. Pawlowsky are soon to come, while subscription is now open for the three concerts of the Flonzaley Quartet...
...program is in three parts. The Brahms Sonata in E-flat for clarinet and piano is said to be Brahms' favorite among all his chamber music. It is of several piano-clarinet pieces which the composer wrote for and dedicated to Carl Muhlfeldt, a celebrated clarinet player. The Cesar Franck Sonata for violin and piano is one of the most effective modern pieces written for that combination...
...Friday evening, Mr. Ullian, pupil of Mr. Hans Ebell will play an excellent program, including Beethoven's Sonata Op. 109, in Jordan Hall...