Word: andreyev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sessions: Suite from "The Black Maskers" (Eastman-Rochester Symphony conducted by Howard Hanson; Mercury). A vivid and sometimes violent score, completed in 1923 for a production of Andreyev's symbolic drama and made into suite form in 1928. The music, once frighteningly "modern,'' has lost most of its terrors, is now easily accessible, occasionally beautiful, always stimulating...
Pantaloon, by Manhattan's Robert Ward, 39, assistant to the president of Juilliard School of Music. The plot adapted from He Who Gets Slapped by Russian Symbolist Leonid Andreyev, concerns a disturbed fellow who joins a circus as a clown for deep-seated reasons of his own. Composer Ward's music resembles Mascagni's, with thick textures sweeping strings and sweet harmonies and thus Pantaloon has the makings of a successful theater piece. Unfortunately, the drama does not need, or benefit from, the addition of music...