Word: cello
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...addition to such pieces as "Saudades do Brazil" and the popular Slavonic dances, which have appeared in earlier programs, the orchestra will play a Bach suite for strings, and a Bach double concerto for two violins, strings, and flutes, together with the cello solo...
...orchestra of fifty men will play a program which is expected to be of unusual interest to the average listener. It will include Gluch's overture to "Iphigenia in Aulis", a Bach suite for strings, and a Bach double concerto for two violins, strings, and flutes, together with the cello solo. The two Bach numbers seldom appear on orchestra programs, and their musical value, the players feel, is little known to the public...
...however, the usual situation is reversed. The little triangle, with its hopelessly puerile dialog, has barely enough momentum to suggest a climax until the climax arrives-this time an auto race. The way the race is worked out, to the drone, like the vibration of gigantic, loose 'cello strings, of the little cars, is the only thrill of this typical program picture. Richard Arlen and Mary Brian have the leads. Best shot: poker game in a small-town commercial club...