Word: sonata
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first round eliminated all but 15 players. The second (Marin Marais's La Folia or the second movement of Kodaly's Sonata, Op. 8) cut them down to four. In the finals, first prize and 350,000 francs ($833) went to the U.S.'s Leslie Parnas, 25, first cellist with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. The Russian entries came in third and fourth, while a West German girl took second place. Cried Maestro Casals: "That was real music, the most remarkable contest I was ever present at." Said Cellist Parnas, who soloed with the St. Louis Symphony...
...organ recital by William Sprigg, organist and assistant professor of music at Hood College, Maryland, will conclude the summer school music series on Thursday August 15th. Sprigg will play works by Hindemith, Messiaen and Vaughan-Williams and will also perform his own composition, Sonata number 1. The concert, which will be held in the Memorial Church at 8:30 p.m., is open to the public without charge, it has been announced...
Luise Vosgerchian, one of the best of our young American pianists, was heard Monday night at Paine Hall in a recital comprising two Scarlatti sontats, Chopin's Fantaisie in F-minor, her own Recitative and Aria, and Beethoven's Sonata...
...excellent interpretation of the Beethoven Op. 101 sonata, the gateway to the late period, is too well known to need extended comment here. Let it be said that the transition from the slow movement to the last was marked by some of the most scintillating trills it has been this reviewer's pleasure to hear in many a moon, and that the Finale was played with plenty of Entschlossenheit according to Beethoven's directions...
Miss Vosgerchian, a frequent soloist and ensemble performer in Boston, will present works by Scarlatti and Chopin, and the Sonata Opus 101 by Beethoven...