Word: szymanowski
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...include Howard Hanson's Pan and the Priest, a tone poem for violin and orchestra by Templeton Strong, U. S. composer living in Geneva (Josef Szigeti, soloist); the first performance of Scriabin's piano concerto (Gitta Gradova, soloist); a fantasy by Darius Milhaud for piano and orchestra; Szymanowski's Third Symphony; J. C. Bach's Sinfonia; Bloch's Israel, Honegger's Tempest overture; Pfitzner's three preludes from Palestrina and a De Falla composition for piano and orchestra...
...lifted his eyebrows at the audience, his baton at the orchestra. Unrivaled is the popularity of the Philadelphia Orchestra this year; unapproached the position of Conductor Stokowski. Novelty of this concert was the playing, for the first time in the U. S., of a violin concerto by Karol von Szymanowski which the composer dedicated to "mon ami," Violinist Paul Kochanski. Ami Kochanski was there himself, chin on instrument, to play the solo part...