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Break for a Girl. Eileen has not forgotten how she got her start. Years ago, when she was in a Perth convent, a priest brought Composer-Pianist Percy Grainger to hear her play. Grainger, in turn, fetched the great German Pianist Wilhelm Back-haus, who was touring Australia. When Backhaus said that she must go to Leipzig to study, the miners passed the hat to send her. Now Eileen is looking around for another talented Australian girl who needs help. Says she: "This is a man's world, and a girl needs every break...
...light, pleasant band numbers: a grand march, a Strauss waltz, a fantasy for cornet. Others came for the tangier items by modern composers: Aaron Copland's An Outdoor Overture (led by the composer), a suite for band by the late British composer Gustav Hoist, works by Percy Grainger, Philip James, Stravinsky. Bandmaster Goldman caters to varied tastes, puts on music undreamed-of in oldtime band-concert days, when the Poet and Peasant Overture was the absolute ceiling...
Dusty and tousled in grimy white ducks and sweater, with a knapsack at his shoulder and an umbrella in his hand, wanderlusty Pianist-Composer Percy Grainger trudged into the Cheyenne, Wyo., depot, was hailed by cops, who wanted to know his name. One officer heard it. grunted: "And I'm William Tell," marched him into the station. There Vagabond Grainger produced his proof, departed unperturbed for a concert engagement at Greeley, Colo...
...First Slavonic Dance (in C major) Dvorak *Large from the "New World" Symphony Dvorak *Irish Tune from County Derry Grainger *"Finlandia," Symphonic Poem Sibelius Pastorale and Procession Langendoen (Conducted by the composer) *Symphonic Variations, for Piano and Orchestra Franck Soloist: Elizabeth Siedhoff *"By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss *"Bach Goes to Town" (A Fugue in Swing) Templeton *"Washington Post," March Sousa...
...March MilitaireSchubert *Overture to "Mignon" Thomas *"Molly on the Shore" Grainger *"Cavalleria Rusticana," Fantasia Mascagni Austrian Peasant Dances Schonherr Wedding March "Schuhplattler" Hog Dance Zwoaschritt *Second Norwegian Dance Grieg *Halian Capriccio Tschaikovsky "The Incredible Flutist" Piston (Dance Play by Hans Wiener) Hans Wiener and his Dancers with Orchestra *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...