Word: sonata
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...likewise Busoni and Rosenthal; Godowsky a good technician; Rachmaninoff a third rater; Josef Hofmann not a great pianist, although he plays well at times. These divertissements were laid to the man's natural peculiarities, those peculiarities which lead him to make apostrophic speeches while he plays a sonata in concert. Actually, however, they were largely the product of an enthusiasm, perhaps a monomania...
...pianist, Arthur Rubinstein, who returns to America in the Fall, recently played a program of new piano works in Paris. The music, all of the most modern variety, included a sonata, Petrouschka, by Strawinsky. The piece is founded on the ballet, Petrouschka. Rubinstein, who is a subtle minded student in addition to his musicianship, has ideas to expound as well as music to play. He tells you, for instance, and with ardent seriousness, that musicians have a sixth sense...
...there is a certain warmth, an enthusiasm, a disonant quality, a vitality of rhythm, which is not foreign to the newer musical tendencies of Paris. My hope and my reasonable expectation is that some young American composer will produce a jazz symphony, in other words, jazz in sonata form. If America does not develop this musical concept, I will do so myself. So far no exponent of this evident trend has appeared in this country--not even Cyril Scott, who is not as far advanced as the new French school...
...Sonata, F major...
...Sonata, B minor...