Word: toccatas
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...writing music steadily since he composed the score for a Dunster House musical not long after his return from Paris. He has done a good deal of choral composition, and his works include the Alice in Wonderland Suite and The Choral 'New Yorker.' Koussevitzky has heaped praise on his Toccata Concertante. It has had several performances this year by the Boston Symphony and was played under the composer's direction at Sanders Theater this winter. His new Partita for Woodwind Quintet was performed last month at M.I.T...
...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...
...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...
They will also get a chance to hear the first New England presentation of Ralph Vaughan-Williams' "Toccata Marziale...
...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...