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...Arabian music. In 1917, his "intellectual ballet" the "Woodcut Prince" was given a performance in Budapest, and when this was followed a year later by the opera "Bluebeard's Castle" both critics and public alike looked upon him with favor. He has continued to compose, in fact producing a violin concerto so recently that it was given its first performance in this country only a few weeks...
...right effect; it is polished, sophisticated music, and needs a polished, sophisticated performance. Dr. Koussevitsky knew the effects he wanted, and got them. In particular, th second and last movements stood out. In the former, the playing was perfect, so much so that it sounded as if one violin, not the entire large string section of a symphony orchestra was playing...
...appraise Ray Nance's or newcomer Harold Baker's hot trumpet work. Which is just as well, as Rex Stewart stopped the show with his famous solo on "Boy Meets Horn." Rex did the best soloing of the evening, hitting new lows, in notes, that is. Nance played the violin instead, on "Bakiff," and came very close to persuading me that a violin can play jazz. With Nance and Juan Tizol's trombone, "Bakiff" was infinitely more successful than on records...
...long-haired concert violinist. After fiddling for five years as a concert side show to the late, great Enrico Caruso, Cugat settled in Los Angeles, where he made a high-toned debut as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. When the critics failed to rave, Cugat gave up the violin in disgust, took a job as a cartoonist on the Los Angeles Times...
...audience politely applauded the work of Boston-born Walter Piston (Quintet for Flute and Strings), Brooklyn-born Aaron Copland (Birthday Piece, On Cuban Themes For Two Pianos), French-born Darius Milhaud (string quartet), California-born Frederick Jacobi (songs about the prophet Nehemiah), Czech-born Bohuslav Martinu (Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano). Hit of the evening came at the program's close with Russian-born Louis Gruenberg's Variations on a Popular Theme. It nearly brought discreet cheers. Composer Gruenberg's theme was The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze. In it the audience had finally...