Word: tone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...January 12, February 9, March 9, March 23, April 6 and April 21. 1. Symphony No. 3 in F major. Opus 90. Hrahma Allegro con brio. Andante. Poco Allegretto Allegro. 2. Incidental music to "Roesmnnde" 3. "La Procession", Franck 4. "Aria", "Let the Bright Seraphim" from "Samson", Handel 5. Tone Poem, "Don Juan" (after Nicolaus Lerahu), Straues
...Sadko", composed by Rimsky Korsakow in 1867, has been called the first Russian symphonic poem. It was the germ from which the opera of the same name sprang in 1896. Korsakow re-orchestrated the tone-poem in 1891, the new version of which is always played. How it recalled the unforgettable Diaghileff Ballet Russe, and the gorgeous Bakst settings and costumes! Korsakow is always remarkably effective with the orchestra, no matter if at times he sounds banal on the pianoforte. The combination of the barbaric splendor or Russian folk-music and oriental sensuousness never fails to charm; his orchestration will...
...fresh the Mendelssohn symphony sounded! Perhaps the harmonic scheme appears rather evident to some. The work was composed eighty-eight years ago. Many question the title of "Italian" symphony because the first three movements do not suggest Italy in any way. Mendelssohn was not writing a tone-poem. What exquisite light passages for strings it contains, and what a wealth of thematic material so skillfully developed...
...ever heard of Mr. Nyiregyhazi before. Few will ever forget him. They did not know he was a Hungarian of only eighteen years of age. His playing of Liszt's pyrotechnic concerto was superb, and he surpassed both previous performances in Boston. His technique was flawless; his control of tone in the more sentimental passages was in excellent taste. Fortunately "Sadko" had sufficiently aroused a decidedly frigid audience to give him the warm applause he merited...
...program will be as follows: Mendelssohn, Italian Symphony in A Major Rimsky - Korsakoff, Tone Picture "Sadko" Liszt, Concerto for pianoforte and orchestra in A major Erwin Nyfregyhazi, soloist. Rabaud, Dances from the opera "Marouf, Cobbler of Cairo...