Word: symphonicment
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The 1812, depicting Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, was augmented with artillery sounds at its first performance there in 1882. The fact that this old warhorse received its first NewYork rendition with similar effects last week was due to the Works Progress Administration and Colonel John Reed Kilpatrick, president...
Neither was the WPA concert a disappointment to the man who did much of the six weeks' work of organizing it, who whipped the 285 players together after they had been rehearsed in sections. Conductor Erno ("Ernie") Rapée not only led the biggest symphonic orchestra ever assembled...
From the time Victor Herbert turned to operettas there seemed no limit to the inspiration which prompted one melody after another. The disappointment of his life was his failure to make a lasting name as a serious composer. He wrote concertos, cantatas, symphonic suites, all long forgotten. He wrote two...
On Tuesday, Dai Buell is to be soloist in the Liszt Concerto for pianforte No. 1 in E flat major. Sibelius's symphonic poem, "Finlandia", will also be played.
Thursday Evening, May 7 American Programme--(to benefit the Christopher Shop George Gershwin, Soloist *"Stars and Stripes Forever"Sousa "In War Time,' 'from the "Indian Suite" MacDowell *"Fosteriana," Rhapsody on Melodies of Stephen Foster Arr. by Baron *Concerto for Pianoforte in F Gershwin (The Composer as soloist) *Symphonic Suite, "Porgy...