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This winter Spalding & Gabrilowitsch have twice chosen to combine their talents, to play sonatas for the piano and violin which most musicians either neglect or use to exhibit their individual virtuosity. Last week Manhattan's Town Hall filled quickly and completely to hear the team play Brahms's A Major Sonata, Mozart's B Flat Sonata, and Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata (socalled because Beethoven dedicated it to Rodolphe Kreutzer, a French violinist who never took the trouble to play it). Throughout the program the two submerged their personalities to make music that was perfectly balanced, completely...
...slight, cropped-haired person in a red brocaded dress. But Eunice Norton compassed it all neatly. Her fingers traveled easily and accurately through Bach's E Minor French Suite, clearly traced its complicated, interweaving patterns. The Andante from Weber's lovely, slightly faded A Flat Sonata was played with a tenderness surprising in a young person who by temperament seemed better suited to the brittle, contrapuntal ways of Hindemith...
Yesterday strikes were called at New York University and the College of the City of New York by the students. At N.Y.U. the cause given was the forced suspension of the campus paper, the Daily News, by the Student Sonata; while at City College the undergraduates were fighting for the ro-instatement of nineteen students who had participated in a mock trial of some of the college officials. In both instauces the demonstrators had resented the invasion of their rights of free speech and press. This is by no means the first time that disturbances of this short have broken...
...tell variously interrupts or suddenly pounces upon or absentmindedly neglects the tunes which flow continuously from Composer Kern's brimming music box. Neither operetta, musicomedy nor revue, Music in the Air is billed simply as "a musical adventure." Scenes are labeled Leit Motif, Etudes, Pastoral, Impromptu, Sonata...
...Sonata,"' best scene in Act II. is laid in the Munich Tierpark, a charming scene by Joseph Urban complete with the blue & white chevronings of Bavaria, caged ! parrots, romping children, elephants, a performing bear and good pastry. Still ; bent on their new amorous guests, the ! playwright tries to sing "One More Dance" to bewildered Sieglinde while his mistress out-howls him with "Night Flies By." for the benefit of timid Karl. Upshot of this sequence: The playwright puts Sieglinde in his new play, the mistress carries Karl off to Berlin. With much sympathy and good humor, Messrs Hammerstein & Kern...