Word: sonata
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around band in the country. And at a great many things, it shades Dorsey. I can remember very few times when I got as big a kick from just the way a band played its music as I did from such things as Lunceford's rendition of the Beethovan Sonata Pathetique. The band puts on a terrific show, plays an easy bounce style of dance music, and has excellent soloists. Jimmy Young (trombone) ranks in the top three. Paul Webster (trumpet) is recognized as the highest in the business. Willie Smith and Joe Thomas can play sax for anybody...
...Piano and Orchestra which the Boston Symphony played last week, for instance, has long passages in a distinctly lyrical mood. Roussel's String Trio, Op. 58, which was played at the Longy School last evening, shows how remarkably his style had softened since the time of his Violin Sonata and the works of his middle life. The same development is apparent in Prokofiev. The change from the acrid dissonance of works like the Scythian Suite to the out-and-out romanticism of the G minor Violin Concerto is one of the most striking examples of what has been going...
...tonight's concert at Agassiz Theatre wind players of the Longy School faculty and the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Mr. Elmer Schoettle at the piano will perform three unusually interesting selections: Beethoven's "Sonata for Horn and Piano" op. 17; the Brahms "Clarinet and Piano Sonata" op. 120, no. 2; and the Mozart "Quintet for Winds and Piano." The Mozart Quintet is a charming example of his later style, and the rather sombre Brahms Sonata, though occasionally heard in the arrangement for viola, is seldom played in the original version...
...violas), the rest of the program is made up of modern works: "Choros II for Flute and Clarinet" by Villa-Lobos, a short rhythmical piece of great difficulty; "Three Counterpoints" by Honegger, which are gay pieces in spite of their academic form; and the second performance of Piston's "Sonata for Violin and Piano" (Mr. Piston will be at the piano...
Schumann: Sonata in A Minor, Op. 105, for Violin and Piano (Adolf Busch and Rudolf Serkin; Victor: 4 sides). A slight, lyric, late Schumann sonata, superbly performed...