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MUSICAL COURIER
April 20, 1922
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Ernest

Schelling
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“America’s Own Master Pianist”
Playing His Own Compositions Triumphs With Leading Orchestras
Soloist Season 1921-1922 with
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, Willem Mengelberg, Conductor. PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, Leopold Stokowski, Conductor.
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Frederick Stock, Conductor.
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Conductor.
ST. LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Rudolph Ganz, Conductor.
MINNEAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Emil Oberhoff er, Conductor.
Engaged for Season 1922-1923 with
CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA, AMSTERDAM, Willem Mengelberg, Conductor. NEW YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Walter Damrosch, Conductor.
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, Josef Stransky, Conductor.
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA, Nikolai Sokoloff, Conductor.
The statement so often heard that the great war has produced no great music is not true. The thousands who were so lucky as to have seats for yesterday afternoon’s Philharmonic Concert in Carnegie Hall know that it is not true. They heard a superb military march, or tempo di marcia, for full orchestra, by Ernest Schelling, which stirred the hearers, including the writer, as few things have stirred them this season. It is music born of the composer’s own experiences in the field of war—soul impressions translated into orchestral sounds. There is no composer in Europe today who could have translated this program into sounds more awe-inspiring. No living American composer has written so inspired a score as this. Fine as was the performance of this work six years ago, Schelling, with the equally impetuous and inspiring Mengelberg and the incomparable Philharmonic, surpassed it in finish and eloquence. The audience was tremendously enthusiastic. The applause was deafening and prolonged.	—H. T. Finch, in the New York Evening Post.
Ernest Schelling played his own “Fantastic Suite for Piano and Orchestra,” which is an exceptionally interesting work by an American composer. There is so much that is appealing and so much that is of the most exquisite beauty in this work that we feel we should hear it more often. As a virtuoso Schelling was top notch. His chief point of excellence was his tone. It was superb. His touch was crispness itself. A more enjoyable pianist we have not had in a long time.
-—■Henry Starr Richardson, in the Philadelphia Star.
A fanfare by the orchestra, an eagerness on the part of the men to repeat a part of the composition and enthusiastic applause from the audience, would measure to some extent the success that Ernest Schelling, American pianist-composer, achieved yesterday afternoon with the Chicago Symphony’s orchestral interpretation of Schelling’s “Impressions.” That they are written by a master musician, who has all the technical skill for orchestration and for instrumental blending, a hearing of the work will at once substantiate.	-*-Maurice Rosenfeld, in the Chicago Daily News.
Mr. Schelling renews faith in the American composer. His listeners found the suite much to their liking, their gift of hearty applause summoning the composer many times in acknowledgment. Mr. Schelling later was heard again, this time as interpreter of Paderewski in the Polish Fantasie for piano and orchestra. It proved to be a most delightful piece, abounding in the delicate and intricate pianism expected from a man who was a great genius. These tests proved Mr. Schelling to be a pianist who gives thought to creating beauty, carefully grading his tone, placing value on the lyric but able to flay with steel-like blows of his fingers in that exceedingly brilliant finish of the Polish Fantasie.
—Robert Kelly, in the Detroit News.
In that brief work yesterday Ernest Schelling revealed himself as perhaps the most brilliant pianist one has heard this year. He makes no attempt to dramatize his technique. One warmed to the crisp, clean pianism, sparkling and brilliant, its tone glowing in beautiful depths. And one longs for an opportunity to hear more of it.	—Harry R. Burke, in the St. Louis Times.
Mr. Schelling Will Be Soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra, Nikolai Sokoloff, Conductor, on a Fortnight’s Tour of the Middle West and South, Beginning Dec. 10th.
Aeolian Hall, New York. DUO-ART RECORDS
DANIEL MAYER
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