Word: rachmaninoff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They had 80 members of the Philharmonic-Symphony to play with, Willem Mengelberg to conduct, Prof. John Erskine (also of the Juilliard school) to introduce them. They had many and important listeners, including leading critics. They had marked talent, both of them-but for Brahms' violin concerto, for Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto it was not enough. Nor did the leading critics appear to remember their assigned roles. Said Lawrence Gilman in the Herald Tribune: "Miss Shuchari gave a creditable conservatory performance, flawed by occasional impurity of intonation, poor tone quality, inaccurate double-stopping, and an infelicitous delivery...
...Brahms Lied der Braut Schumann Der Erl Konig Shubert Madame Matzenauer Jubilate Deo G. Gabrieli Plorate Flii Israel Carissimi Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence French Folk Song Arr. by Holst Harvard Glee Club Intermission Over The Steppe Gretchanioff On Wings of Dream Arensky In The Silent Night Rachmaninoff Thy Warning is Good Grieg Madame Matzenauer Shoot, False Love Morley O' Jesus, Tender Shepherd, Hear German Folk Song Arr. by Brahms Credo from Mass in A Major Schubert Harvard Glee Club
...Brahms Lied der Braut Schumann Der Erl Konig Slhuberl Madame Matzenauer Jubilate Deo G. Gabrieli Plorate Flii Israel Carissimi Let All Mortal Fleeh Keep Silence French Folk Song Arr. by Holst Harvard Glee Club Intermission Over The Steppe Gretchaninoff On Wings of Dream Arensky In The Silent Night Rachmaninoff Thy Warning is Good. Grieg Madame Matzenauer Shoot, False Love Morley O Jesus, Tender Shepherd, Hear German Folk Song Arr, by Brahms Credo from Mass in A Major Schubert Harvard Glee Club
...Polka de W. R." and "Troika en Traineaux" are characteristic piano recordings of Rachmaninoff. Beautifully recorded...
...budget allots six millions to the 13 major symphony orchestras, three and a half millions to the Metropolitan and Chicago Opera Companies, the rest to individual artists, summer concert orchestras, a few minor opera companies. Grade A box-office attractions, according to Manager Engles, are Pianists Paderewski, Hofmann, Rachmaninoff; Violinists Kreisler, Heifetz, Elman, Yehudi Menuhin; Singers Schumann-Heink, Garden, Farrar, Jeritza, Galli-Curci, Taliey, Ponselle, McCormack, Chaliapin, Gigli, Schipa. Their gross receipts amount to some three millions a year...