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...program will include a String Quartet, Sonata for Flute and Plane, three songs, and the first performance of Professor Hill's Concertino Number 3 for Pianoforte and Orchestra...
...Washington, at a reverent chamber-music festival, Composer Bartók at the piano collaborated with an eminent friend and compatriot, Violinist Joseph Szigeti (pronounced zig-get´ty), in his First Rhapsody and Second Sonata. The same pair gave the Rhapsody a repeat performance in Manhattan. The Philadelphia Orchestra played two "Bartók Images, fairly easy on the ears. The League of Composers had scheduled an all-Bartók concert in Manhattan for this week, once again with "Bartók and Szigeti on the stage...
...went to Paris in 1933, where Lukas, who had begun his musical lispings at seven, studied with pedagogues of the Conservatoire. In 1937 the family reached the U. S., put Lukas in Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. Since then he has written piano pieces (published by Schirmer), a violin sonata (broadcast from Manhattan), two operas (not yet performed). Father Foss is in business. In Germany he wrote books on philosophy, but in the U. S., says Son Lukas, "the only philosophy is 'Take it easy,' and you can't write books about that...
Among the works to be played are the Organ Concerto in C major, and two sonatas (F major and D major) for violin, viloncello, and organ by Arcangelo Corelli, the first mature composer of violin music. Being a master of the violin himself, he greatly improved the technique of violin playing. This was demonstrated in his compositions in which he was able to bring out the different characteristics of the instrument. The slow movements of his sonnets are perfect vehicles for displaying the singing quality of a violin. It was also Corelli who made the first step towards the development...
...piano, Composer Hewitt wrote a piece called The Fourth of July-A Grand Military Sonata. For the harpsichord he wrote a second "military sonata" called The Battle of Trenton, which he dedicated to General George Washington...