Word: violining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...businessman-composer." Though he helped carry on the family ship chandler business, Composer Carpenter has been an earnest musician and a musical institution in Chicago for some 25 years. Last week he gave his native city the first big work he had composed since 1933, a Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. His good friend, Zlatko Balokovic, Yugoslav violinist, played the Concerto. A friendly audience applauded. Respectful Chicago critics agreed that Composer Carpenter had learned something, but could not quite say what it was. Some attempts: "None-too-deeply-ecstatic emotionalism of a facile fantasy . . . rhythmic vitality . . . mercurial elusiveness. ... It sings...
Golden Boy is not in the mass-attack tradition of the typical Odets power play. It singles out cross-eyed, spiritually tormented Joe Bonaparte (Luther Adler), studies his indecision between the violin and pugilism, traces the gradual disintegration of his character in the brutish environment of the ring, and brings him finally to the realization that the false ideals and broken hands of the fight game have ruined his chances for happiness, broken his father's heart...
...right hand. There have been written for the left hand alone four good pieces with opus numbers by Reger; two finely conceived and well-placed selections of Skriabin, opus 9; etudes by Moszkowski, Saint-Saens, Berens; and also Brahms has set Bach's Chaconne in D minor for violin alone as a study for the left hand...
...Koussevitzky is to lead the Boston Symphony in Sanders Theatre tomorrow night and is presenting a highly interesting program. Roussel's fine Third Symphony is to be repeated from last week's concerts, and Sibelius's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor is also to be played with Orrea Pernel as soloist. In addition, Philip Emanuel Bach's Concerto in D major for Stringed Instruments (arranged by Steinberg) and the Prelude to "Die Meistersinger" will be heard...
About 100 records are listed in the leaflet which I have, the largest number being for first violin with piano, cello, viola and second violin following...