Word: sonatas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parental nod to the Harvard Glee Club. During their first years together, members vocalized as often as they scraped G-strings and on the first anniversary of the Sodality, "a number of appropriate songs were sung.... The greatest order and harmony were observed." But constant mixing of song and sonata had its drawbacks, and in 1858 the Glee Club broke away, leaving its parent organization to roam its scales alone, accompanied with such comments as "met and played like thunder...met, practiced, liquored and adjourned." Castigations of certain instruments were a common thing for "even the cello...persisted in being...
Thursday--Music Club Concert at Kirkland House, 7 o'clock. All Mozart program; including two quartets for piano and strings; Violin Sonata in E minor; Piano sonata in F. Douglas Allanbrook, piano; Margaret, Tobert, violin; Caroline Manning, viola; Peter Gram Swing, cello...
...program, which will last for an hour and twenty minutes, will consists of three sonatas for piano and violin by Handel, Hindemith, and Brahms, and one sonata for violin by Bach...
...program with the singers will be two-piano pieces by Darius Milhaud and Theodore Chanler and the four-hand sonata by Hindesmith, while the group will conclude the concert with the first American presentation of the cantata "Secheresses" by Francis Poulenc...
...Mozart: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord (Alexander Schneider, violin, and Ralph Kirkpatrick, harpsichord; Columbia, 12 sides). A first-rate sonata team making itself at home in the 18th Century. They play Mozart's melodious Sonatas in C Major, B Flat Major and G Major. (Alexander Schneider is an alumnus of the great Budapest String Quartet; brother Mischa still plays in it.) Performance: excellent...