Word: scriabin
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...Schumann Polonaise in E flat minor Nocturne in B major, Op 9, No. 3 Mazurka in B flat minor Ballade in F minor Chopin Orientale, Op. 10, No. 2 Stojowski Moment Musical in F sharp minor, Op. 94, No. 3 Schubert-Godowsky Elude in C sharp minor, Op 2 Scriabin Kaleidoscope, Op. 40, No. 4 Hofmann
Like his student friends, young Szymanowski went to Berlin to broaden his studies. There he picked up mannerisms of Brahms and Strauss, did not lose them for years. During the War he suddenly began to write in the complex chords of Scriabin, did most of his important work under that influence...
Conductor Rodzinski's début concert was the loudest if not the loveliest that New Yorkers have heard this season. He swayed excitedly from side to side, made fierce faces at the players to bring out every last theatric effect. Scriabin's Divine Poem, stunningly bombastic, compelled an ovation for the hard-working Clevelander. But Rodzinski had still louder music: two entr'actes from Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk...
...class and married him, given him money to form an orchestra, tour the provinces and down the Volga. Exiled from Russia she helped finance him in Western Europe, became his shrewd self-effacing partner in a music-publishing concern which has sponsored the works of Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff. Natalya Koussevitzky is rightfully proud of her husband's U. S. achievements. He has polished Boston's orchestra so that it again rivals New York's and Philadelphia's. He has given peerless performances of Ravel and Debussy, established himself as the greatest of U. S. program...
...give its first Manhattan concert on Oct. 14. Mr. Mengelberg's novelties will include Howard Hanson's Pan and the Priest, a tone poem for violin and orchestra by Templeton Strong, U. S. composer living in Geneva (Josef Szigeti, soloist); the first performance of Scriabin's piano concerto (Gitta Gradova, soloist); a fantasy by Darius Milhaud for piano and orchestra; Szymanowski's Third Symphony; J. C. Bach's Sinfonia; Bloch's Israel, Honegger's Tempest overture; Pfitzner's three preludes from Palestrina and a De Falla composition for piano and orchestra...