Word: symphonicment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
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.
Never have higher standards of symphonic performance been required. They are achieved only by much rehearsing. Especially do new works, the sign of life and progress in an orchestra, require rehearsals. A symphony orchestra player will earn over $100 a week, which, for a band of 100 men, constitutes a...
Lawrence Gilman has called the Seventh Symphony the "most beautiful symphony in the world." Others may and do disagree. But opinion is curiously uniform in praise of this symphony. It is Beethoven at his zenith, technical if not emotional. It is not a big symphony, big as are the third...
Tschaikowsky's endlessly played Symphonic Pathetique appears not at all. Debussy is represented only by an aria from L'Enfant Prodigue, and by none of his orchestra pieces. Nor do we find the Fifth Symphony of Beethoven. The seventh was the only one of his symphonies played. These...