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Concerto

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He had the ability to play complex compositions upon first hearing. Many recordings were made by the Victor Talking Machine Company recording label of Rachmaninoff's performing his own music, as well as works from the standard repertory. Rachmaninoff began making recordings for Thomas Edison in 1919, recording on an upright piano that the inventor admitted was not very good, but the discs provided the composer with some much-need income. The next year he signed an exclusive contract with the Victor Talking Machine Company and continued to make recordings for Victor until February 1942.

Frederick Stock conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1840-1893. Suite from the ballet The Nutcracker, Op. 71a. Completed 1892, first performance March 19, in St. Petersburg. Scored for 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone, tuba, cymbals, triangle, tambourine, glockenspiel, tympani, harp, celesta, and strings. Read more:
http://www.lasr.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/prognotes/tchaikovsky/nut-suite.html

FREDERICK STOCK (photo)
Born November 11, 1872, Jülich, Germany.
Died October 20, 1942, Chicago, Illinois. Read More:
http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=7,3,1,4,2

William Kincaid was born in Minneapolis. In 1911, he went to Columbia University and the Institute of Musical Art, where he studied flute with flutist, Georges Barrere. He played next to Barrere in the New York Symphony Orchestra under Walter Damrosch. Following service in the U.S. Navy, Kincaid returned to New York to perform with the New York Chamber Music Society and at the age of 26, to Philadelphia with conductor Leopold Stokowski to succeed Andre Maquarre as solo flutist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, a position he held until his retirement in 1960. William M. Kincaid (April 26, 1895 - March 27, 1967)

Described as "something of a phenomenon" by The Strad magazine and a “high-powered soloist” by the New York Times, Canadian-born violinist Lara St. John has performed as soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony, the National Arts Center Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony, the NDR Symphony Orchestra (Hanover), the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and the Boston Pops, among many others. The Los Angeles Times has written, “St. John brings to the stage personal charisma, an unflagging musical imagination and genuine passion.”

Caruso

Caruso encore...JeCrois Entendre
(1873-1921). The Italian tenor Caruso was one of the greatest opera singers of all time. The most famous of nearly 70 roles that he sang were the clown in Leoncavallo's `Pagliacci' and Rodolfo in Puccini's `La Bohme'.

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