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The violinist, 1900
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1about six years in his home city. He then studied at the Royal Conservatory and Meister School of Vienna, including two years under the famous technician, Ottokar Sevcik.
3Mr. Cornfeld played the Goldmark's Suite in E Major, for violin and piano; Vieuxtemps E Major Concerto; Romance in F Major, Beethoven; Hungarian Dance, G Minor, No. 1; Brahms-Joachim Air, Goldmark; Walzer, No. 2, Weber-Burmester and, as a final demonstration of technical skill, the Moses Fantasie on the G string, of Paganini. Two encore numbers were given, Cui's "Danse Orientale" being exquisitely played after the Vieuxtemps concerto.
5PAUL MEYER AT WITHERSPOON HALL
6Paul Meyer, one of Philadelphia's most popular violinists, gave pleasure to a large audience in Witherspoon Hall during the month, when he presented a well-arranged program. Mr. Meyer has excellent command of his instrument, with beauty of tone and fluent execution.
8COMBS CONSERVATORY VIOLINISTS PLAY
9A musical event of interest was the sonata recital at the Combs Broad Street Conservatory of Music last Thursday evening by Virginia Snyder, pianist, and Clarence Cox, violinist, of the faculty, assisted by Paul Carpenter, violinist.
11FIRST KNEISEL CONCERT
12The Kneisel Quartet gave the first of its new series of three recitals in Witherspoon Hall with the usual success. Quartets by Mozart and Chadwick and a quintet by Franck in which the Kneisel players were ably assisted by Michael van Zadora, pianist, constituted the program.
14SECOND CONCERT OF BOSTON SYMPHONY
15The Boston Symphony Orchestra gave its second concert of the season at the Academy of Music, with Fritz Kreisler as soloist, devoting all of the time allotted to the purely orchestral part of the program to an interpretation of Mahler's Symphony in G Sharp Minor, No. 5, to which the audience listened attentively, evidently with enjoyment. Mr. Kreisler played the Brahms D Minor Concerto as he only can play it.
17ANOTHER YOUNG PHILADELPHIA VIOLINIST
18George Westby, a young violinist of Philadelphia, Pa., played with success in a concert recently given in that city under the auspices of the Norwegian Singing Society, of which he is a moving spirit.
20LEIPSIG
21An unusual number of new orchestral works are to be given at the Philharmonic; Herr Hans Winderstein conducting. They are a dramatic prelude and a violin concerto by F. Gernsheim, a fantasy for organ and orchestra by R. Stohr, a symphony entitled "Per Aspera ad Astra" by a Scharrer; an overture by R. Wetz; another by E. Boche, Georges Schumann's "Joys of Love," "Allotria," a tone-poem by K. Rorich, and three intermezzi by H. Schaub. Such a list speaks volumes for the activity of the younger generation of German composers, whom many overlook too easily.
23PARLOW AND BACHAUS JOINT RECITAL
24Kathleen Parlow and Wilhelm Bachaus joined forces in a recital at Æolian hall. Affairs of this nature generally lack the artistic balance and proportion of solo recitals, but the present was a commendable exception. The program follows: Sonata in C Minor, Grieg; Miss Parlow and Mr. Bachaus; "Chant Nègrè," A. Walter Kramer; "Gavotte," Tor Aulin; "Valse," Tschaikowsky-Auer; "Præludium and Allegro," Pugnani-Kreisler, Miss Parlow; "Ballade in A Flat," "Studies: op. 10, No. 3, E Major, G Flat, op. 10, No. 5," and "Polonaise, op. 53, in A Flat," Chopin, Mr. Bachaus; "Nocturne," Hubay; "Hungarian one of two readings
25Kathleen Parlow and Wilhelm Bachaus joined forces in a recital at Æolian hall. Affairs of this nature generally lack the artistic balance and proportion of solo recitals, but the present was a commendable exception. The program follows: Sonata in C Minor, Grieg; Miss Parlow and Mr. Bachaus; "Chant Nègre," A. Walter Kramer; "Gavotte," Tor Aulin; "Valse," Tschaikowsky-Auer; "Præludium and Allegro," Pugnani-Kreisler, Miss Parlow; "Ballade in A Flat," "Studies: op. 10, No. 3, E Major, G Flat, op. 10, No. 5," and "Polonaise, op. 53, in A Flat," Chopin, Mr. Bachaus; "Nocturne," Hubay; "Hungarian one of two readings
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