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Word: toccatas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Major for Strings. This is one of the many Thoroughbass pieces that Koussevitsky has had orchestrated, and it is never a surprise to find one starting a concert. But you might well ask why it was put on this program; it was no preparation for Irving Fine's new Toccata Concentrate which followed...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: The Boston Symphony | 12/16/1948 | See Source »

...Toccata Marziala," by Williams, "Suite for Band in E Flat," by Holst, and "Commando March," by Barber fill out the first section of the program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Plays in 'Drumbeats' Tonight | 12/3/1948 | See Source »

They will also get a chance to hear the first New England presentation of Ralph Vaughan-Williams' "Toccata Marziale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Medleys Feature Band Concert Sunday | 5/1/1948 | See Source »

...Schumann situation is even worse. Kilenyi and Cortot slaughter the etudes symphoniques and Myra Hess distorts the Carnaval, while the toccata, Kreisleriana, and sonatas exist only in ancient and unavailable Victor sets. The other piano works are mostly unrecorded. Liszi and Franck are brutally manhandled by everyone but Petri and Horowitz. Here Louis Kentner typifies the wasted talent: known in America for a few excellent Mozart recordings, Kentner himself considers Liszi his piece do resistance...

Author: By Otto A. Friedrich, | Title: The Music Box | 10/21/1947 | See Source »

Boston Symphony Esplanade Concert (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). The Frescobaldi-Kindler Toccata, Wagner's Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, Liszt's Concerto in E-Flat, Delibes' Procession of Bacchus from Sylvia. Conductor: Arthur Fiedler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jul. 7, 1947 | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

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