Word: vivaldi
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...through its association with Christmas, survived the fate of his other works so long relegated to the limbo of forgotten music. Only Bach has escaped the dense fog of obscurity that surrounds almost every composer before Haydn. It is lamentable enough that such acknowledged masters as Palestrina, Scarlatti, Corelli, Vivaldi, Purcell, and Boccherini should be worshipped from afar but rarely heard in American concert halls...
Instrumental music during the summer will be under the direction of Mr. Malcolm H. Holmes, Conductor of the Harvard University Orchestra. The Orchestra will present an informal program of music by Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi on Thursday evening, July 23, and will join with the Summer School Chorus in the joint concert on Tuesday evening, August...
...Vivaldi: Concerto Grosso in D Minor (Boston Symphony conducted by Serge Koussevitzky ; Victor; 3 sides). Eleventh, and most familiar, of the dozen "harmonious raptures" of the red-bearded Venetian priest whose music Bach so often transcribed, recorded (before Boss Petrillo's ban) by the Boston Symphony's matchless strings, with some woodwind help...
...Adler, at 27 the world's greatest harmonicist. Soon The Bronx Symphony Orchestra, 70-piece group which has been rehearsing for months, will play with Larry Adler as harmonica artist. He will blow, note for note, the solo part of a classic concerto originally written for the violin, Vivaldi's A Minor. For Virtuoso Adler, such symphonic antics are nothing new. Nor do most people consider them reprehensible...
...pedal board, did not require music written specially in three staves, and so could play regular two-staff clavier music. And to adopt a clavier composition for the modern organ, all that is needed is to transpose the bass for pedal board. . . . Tonight's program also includes the famous Vivaldi D-Minor Concerto arranged for organ by J. S. Bach, but long attributed, through some bungled manuscripts, to his son, William Friedemann Bach...