Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of this elite in good standing is Manhattan's Elliott Cook Carter,* who, at 47, is just coming into his own: a recording of his String Quartet by the Walden Quartet is being released (by Columbia) in June; another of a suite from the music for his ballet The Minotaur, played by Howard Hanson and the Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra, has just been released (by Mercury); and the Louisville Orchestra this week recorded his imposing new Variations for Orchestra...
...Composer Carter took on his musical studies comparatively late in life, after he became an English major at Harvard in 1926. Those were the years when Serge Koussevitzky was leading the Boston Symphony through the most radical new music, and Carter caught fire. His first major work was a ballet, Pocahontas, in an advanced idiom; then came a symphony, a piano sonata (written on a Guggenheim grant), choral works and chamber music. Today he has a backlog of commissions that will keep him busy for another year...
...piano reduction of Claudio spies Music for a Ballet, an orchestral score which won the 1956 Nadia Boulanger Prize, was performed by Ann Besser and Rzewski. The work is in four movements--Prelude, Vivace, Pantomine, and Pas d'action. It is impossible to judge a symphonic piece fairly after hearing it on the piano. The repeated-chord figurations which were so annoying would probably have been effective, had they been lightly chanted by a woodwind choir (or even played much more softly on the pianos). The melodies that could be heard above the accompanimental material were often charming and expressive...
...Films will present the premiere of its ten-minute ballet film, "The House of Bernada Alba" at the regular subscription series showing of Paysan tonight in the Geographical Institute...
...such celebrated patrons as Authors Guy de Maupassant and Emile Zola, Composer Jules Massenet and Ballet Impresario Sergei Diaghilev who created the Paris legend: "Sit long enough in the Café de la Paix and you will see everyone worth seeing." During World War II, the restaurant served General De Gaulle his first meal in liberated Paris. In 1945, after it had stalled the Germans' best efforts to turn it into an officers' club, the Café de la Paix was about to be commandeered for U.S. officers when a worldly U.S. colonel put his foot down. "Requisition...