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...Manhattan not long ago came Julian Carrillo, composer, onetime director of Mexico's national conservatory. Composer Carrillo has a system all his own. He has substituted numbers for notes, written music in quarter, eighth and 16th tones, and perfected instruments to play them-an "arpacitera" or harp zither, having 97 tones within the octave in subdivisions of 16ths; a French horn, made in Manhattan, that plays 16ths; an "octavina" that plays eighths; a guitar that plays quarters; and an ordinary cello and violin on which were played quarters and eighths. Last week the League of Composers gave a concert...
...Karl Mikael Bellman was a Swedish poet of the 18th Century, a colossal bronze of whom adorns the public gardens of Stockholm. When the god was about to visit him, in the presence of his admirers, he would shut his eyes, take his zither, improvise music and words in praise of love and wine...
...Symphony Hall tonight: 1. Wedding March, Mendelssohn. 2. Overture, "Euryanthe," Weber. 3. Waltz, "O Schoner Mai," Strauss. 4. Selection, "Trovatore," Verdi. 5. Czardas, "Der Geist des Wojewoden," Grossman. 6. Kaiser Variations, Haydn. 7. Poloniase, Chopin. 8. Overture, "Le Roi d'Ys," Lalo. 9. Overture, "Light Cavalry," Suppe. 10. Traumbilder, Zither Solo, Mr. Karl Keller. Lumbye. 11. Mazourka, "Libelle," Strauss. 12. March, "Puppenfee," Bayer...
...Vienna Beauties," Ziehrer. 3. Overture, "La Part du Diable," Auber. 4. Selection, "Singing Girl," Herbert. 5. (a) Scherzo Valse, from "Boabdil," Moszkowski. (b) Malagaena, from "Boabdil," Moszkowski. 6. Overture, "Barber of Seville," Rossini. 7. Waltz, "Harlequin's Wedding," Zach. 8. Polonaise, Chopin. 9. Waltz, "Tales from the Woods," Strauss. Zither Obligato, Mr. C. Keller. 10. "Ronde D'Amour," Westerhout. 11. Polka, "Hunter's Yarns," Komzak. 12. March, "Pro Patria," Milloecker...
...Solo violins, Messrs. J. Hoffmann and K. Ondricek. Zither, Mr. Abloescher...