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...Schreker says that although the post-Sept. 11 legislation raises questions about free speech, individual rights and academic freedom, the current situation is distinct from the Red Scare...
Boston Symphony Orchetra. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave. 266-1492. Performs works by Schreker, Schumann and Beethoven on Thursday, Nov. 11 at 8 p.m.; Friday, Nov. 12 at 1:30 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 13 at 8 p.m. and Tuesday...
...program follows: 1. Overture to "Ali Baba" Cherubini 2. Concerto in D Major, Opp 77 Brahms 3. Prelude to a Drama Schreker 4. "Mazeppa", Symphonic Poem No. 6 Liszt...
...used quarter-tones, and really achieved genuine new effects with them. Expert violinists can manage them, with a little practice (beginners without any practice at all). At last, however, a quarter-tone piano keyboard has been invented, by one Alois Haba, a young Czech pupil of the daring Franz Schreker. His instrument was the chief exhibit at the International Music Festival held in Prague last month...
...sang. But when he insisted on my singing the Czardas a fourth time-I could not get a single note out." Crowned heads of the world's musical aristocracy are not lacking. There is Caruso, whom the diva kissed; Richard Strauss and Puccini, her intimate friends; Franz Schreker, whose music she loathes ("His stories are morbid and unhealthy; his scores, vocally, are the most terrible ever written") ; Geraldine Farrar, whom she generously admires; Gatti-Casazza, Frances Alda, Marcella Sembrich her teacher, "strict, and, when I sometimes gave her occasion, stern." The choicest bits are the naive little confessions...
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