Word: sonata
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...jibes and satire," said Arthur Bodanzky of the Metropolitan Opera House and the Friends of Music the other day. "No person, no moment is safe from his railleries. But everybody knows that it is Rosenthal, whose uncontrollable vice is sharp pointed jocularity. And nobody minds. A violinist played a sonata by Erich Korngold, whose father, the most important music critic in Vienna, is rather remarked for pushing his son's musical fortunes. Afterward a friend of the violinist said to him: 'Why did you play that sonata? It is bad. It isn't even grateful...
Boston went on a pianistic spree over the week end, with Mr. Bauer and Mr. Grainger conducting the celebrations. The latter gave a recital Saturday afternoon, in Jordan Hall, of which it is hard to speak moderately. Playing the Chopin B minor sonata, a Bach prelude and fugue, Schumann's Symphonic Studies, and Balakirev's Islamey, he proved himself to be a skilled pianist and musician, truly worthy of being classed with the greatest. His playing of the Bach fugue drew enthusiasm even from the most skeptical, who were...
...seemed a recital to be remembered, along with few others. His playing of the Chopin sonata was masterly; he is master of every mood, and one movement seemed better played than the preceding...
This afternoon, in Jordan Hall, Mr. Percy Grainger, returning after a long absence from Boston, will play the Chopin sonata in B minor, the Schumann Symphonic Studies, and sundry other pieces, including two sonatas of Scarlatti...
Among the selections on the program are Bach's Prelude and Fugue in G Major, and the Finale from Guilmant's first sonata...