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Searched for performance (1325 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1927-06-20

    ... really was. Precisely the immature, the un-purposeful quality of that voice-leading, which led artists to create a more solidly founded one, did not emerge. The performances amounted to the creation of a mood, and from that it can be said that the pieces ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-12-18

    ... songs was as inappropriate as it could possibly have been, the performance still less fortunate. The singer drained "Feldeinsamkeit" from every quarter-note and eighth-note, and she did exactly the same in the other songs, where each musical phrase had ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-01-30

    ... in breach of Chopin's explicit performance indications, which at any rate he understands as little as any other musician. ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-10-17

    ... letter, which says that we shall come today at 6:30. Returning home, I find the gentleman and two tickets in the orchestra for the performance of Faust – I pay him the 33 shillings and send Dr. Halberstam a telegram that says that we shall come on Friday ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-11-05

    ... heard him for the first time play insecurely, hitting the wrong notes, playing broken chords so badly; the performance of the Prelude in D major was unbearable, as was the first movement of Op. 106. At dinner I discussed with Lie-Liechen the question ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-11-26

    ... spark them off. Even in such a case, what Berrsche expressed so eloquently proves to be true: "... they will think of you last of all" – i.e. with pure joy for that which I provide. I arranged for the performance of the quartet with Weisgärber to take ...

  • Diary entry for 1929-08-15

    ... , and invitation for the coming year. To Baumgarten (picture postcard): thanks for the kind thoughts; perhaps we shall perform Op. 97 some time at home? Joke about the two former guesthouses and the two former professorships. To Miss Elias (postcard ...

  • Diary entry for 1929-09-02

    ... -stanza, antiphonally performed epigrammatic improvised poetry, common to Alpine dwellers, for which many tunes were available: see Marko Deisinger, Heinrich Schenker und die Tiroler Volksmusik: Beobachtungen des Wiener Musiktheoretikers während seiner Sommeraufenthalte ...

  • Diary entry for 1929-10-20

    ... and performances by a female singer from Sofia. After supper, dictation. Halsmann is condemned! Actually the state attorney should have been deprived of his right to bear the title of doctor of law; it is not easy to find a lawyer of such a minimally ...

  • Diary entry for 1929-11-29

    ... a kind of music crematorium. And this audience, crowded together head to head, the artists verily pressed against the wall! No coatroom, no toilet, in short: in spite of the beauty, in essence a performance as if given in a Tyrolean guest house, the ...

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