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Pietro Alessandro Yon left a most enduring impression on a Manhattan audience last week, when he dedicated the beautiful new Speyer Organ at the Town Hall. He played Mendelssohn and Bach, and introduced his own Sonata Romantica, as well as Skilton's American Indian Fantasy. The barbaric clangor of this last composition made many of his hearers forget that Yon can, when he wants to, play with such solid gravity that he has been appointed honorary organist to St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, and that he holds his active post at New York's Church...
Friday evening in the same hall Ernst von Dohnanyi, famous pianist in a concert which will include Beethoven's Sonata in C-major and selections from Chopin, Brahms and Liszt...
...sixth organ recital to be held in Appleton Chapel will be given today at 5 o'clock by Mr. R. C. Robinson, organist at King's Chapel, Boston. The program is as follows: Toceata in F Bach Invocation Adagio, Intermezzo, Sixth Symphony Widor Andante Maestoso, Allegro Risoluto, Sonata in C Minor Salome Reverie Bonnet Scripture Lesson Scherzo, Second Symphony Vierne Choral-Prelude on the Welsh tune, "Rhossymedre" ("Lovely") Vaughn-Williams Rosace (Rose-window) Mulet Finale Franch
Wednesday evening in the same hall Rulon Y. Robinson, tenor, well known here, and Carlo Sabatini, Viennest violinist, will give a concert of old airs and songs of Bax and Ireland on the one hand and of a Sonata of Haendel, a Concerto of Dvorak and miscellaneous violin pieces, on the other...
Thursday evening in the same hall, a recital by Carl Pawlowski, Russian pianist. He will play the inevitable "Sonata Appassionata...