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Thirty years ago the most eminent of all U. S. composers, Edward Alexander MacDowell, died in Manhattan's Westminster Hotel. Known most widely for his piano piece, To a Wild Rose, courtly, affable MacDowell was internationally famed for an imposing list of orchestral suites, symphonic poems, piano concertos, songs...
Most symphonic conductors limit their public activity to conducting. It has been hinted that some are not good enough musicians to do anything else. A few, like the late Ossip Gabrilowitsch and the contemporary Jose Iturbi, have been even more famed as instrumental soloists than as orchestral maestros. Still fewer...
Another in its series of unusual symphonic concerts will be presented by the Federal Music Project at Jordan Hall, Sunday evening, when two eminent concert pianists, Guy and Lois Maier appear as guest artists with the familiar State Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Alexander Thiede.
Eight years ago, at a Philharmonic- Symphony concert in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, Arturo Toscanini introduced to the U. S. an unpretentious composition by a celebrated French composer. The piece was called Bolero. Performed previously in Paris, it was not considered one of its composer's masterpieces, and...
Last week, while erstwhile Bolero fans occupied themselves with other fads & fancies, the music world mourned the death of Composer Ravel, most noted French musician of his generation. It was not as the concocter of that booming bit of cafe music that Ravel drew this world-wide homage, but as...