Word: violining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between two great symphonies--Beethoven's Second and Sibelius' Fifth--is sandwiched a new violin concerto by Hill in this week's Friday Afternoon-Saturday Evening series at Symphony Hall. It should be a well-balanced and interesting program...
...authority on French music, Edward B. Hill was born in Cambridge in 1872, studied under Paine, Chadwick, and Widor, and is now a professor of music here at Harvard. Since he first wrote his concerto for the violin in 1903 it has been revised, and, like most of his works, is pleasant and traditional in form. It is being played this week end to great advantage by Ruth Posselt, the local girl who has made good...
Loeffler's "A Pagan Poem" is of special interest also. From 1885 and 1903 he lived in this vicinity and held a post as second principal violin in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, after which he resigned to devote himself to composition. He was born in Mulhouse, Alsace, in 1861, coming to America as a young composer-violinist. He is one of the earliest exponents of Impressionism in America, but his feeling for melodic line is too strong to identify him exclusively with this French school. He exerts in his writing a fascinating play of orchestral color and unusual rhythmic invention...
Unlike many famous musicians, Paderewski was no infant prodigy. Though he took piano, violin, cello and even trumpet lessons at an early age, his teachers at the Warsaw Conservatory considered him a promising composer rather than a concert artist. Not until he was 28 did he manage to make his debut in-Paris; even then he knew only enough music to fill one program. Debutant Paderewski had to go back and learn more pieces before he could appear again. But this he did with dogged determination, and soon the musical world began to realize that the composer of the famous...
...join in a performance of a divertimento in B flat by Mozart, K. No. 287. The piece was composed and presented in 1777, during Mozart's twenty-first year while he was in Munich on the first stages of his ninth concert tour of Europe. Mozart played the first violin in the performance, and prepared for himself a very brilliant part...