Word: cellistic
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Schubert's Concerto in A Minor by 'Cellist Caspar Cassado and Symphony Orchestra under Sir Hamilton Harty (Columbia, $6)-A compatriot and pupil of Famed Pablo Casals contributes an excellent arrangement of a sonata written for piano and arpeggione (string instrument between a viola and a 'cello in size; invented in Vienna in Schubert's day' seldom played...
...Manhattan last week Conductor Arturo Toscanini abruptly stilled the applause which followed a Smetana symphonic poem, tapped on a cellist's stand for attention and, instead of two trifling Mendelssohn pieces listed on the program, played with his Philharmonic-Symphony the tremendous, soaring funeral march from Wagner's Götterdämmerung. In Philadelphia, St. Louis, Berlin and a score more music centres, were similar scenes and sounds, a world-wide requiem by Wagner...
Conducted by G. W. Woodworth '24, the orchestra of fifty men will play a program designed to be of interest to the average listener. Assisting them will be three soloists, George Brown '23, well-known Boston cellist and former conductor of the Pierian Sodality; 'M. H. Holmes '28, violinist and a member of the Conservatory Orchestra; and Miss Dorothy Comstock, a violinist. Brown will render the feature of the program, Bruch's "Kol Nidrel...
...Harvard University Orchestra, Pierian Sodality of 1808, will be conducted by G. W. Woodworth '24 in a concert to be given on Tuesday, April 1, in Paine Hall, located in the University Music Building. They will be assisted by George Brown '23, well-known Boston cellist and former conductor of the Pierian Sodality, who will play Max Bruch's "Col Nidrei" accompanied by the orchestra...
...which is relatively immune from box office inflation or deflation. Of this an outstanding example is Efrem Zimbalist* who, while not drawing the Kreisler crowds, is considered an almost perfect violinist. Others for whose talents there is a steady demand are Pianists Harold Bauer, Alfred Cortot, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, 'Cellist Pablo Casals, Guitarist Andres Segovia, Violinist Albert Spalding...