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Harold S. Shapero '41 of Newton has won the annual Prix de Rome in Music, it was announced yesterday by Howard Barlow, conductor of the Columbia Symphony Orchestra. The work, "A Nine-Minute Overture," was played during Barlow's regular Sunday afternoon radio program. Instead of the customary privilege of studying at the American Academy in Rome, Shapero will receive $1,000 outright...
Johann Strauss: Rediscovered Music, Volume II (Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, conducted by Howard Barlow; Columbia; 6 sides; $3.50). More polkas and waltzes from the great Library of Congress collection, sparkling and well-iced...
...sort of stuff Leopold Stokowski is good at, and his performance is full of Stokowskian gorgeousness, brilliance, and color, which at the same time sacrifices a good deal of Dukas's subtlety. Refreshing are the excerpts from Hansel and Gretel, that most magic of all operas. Barlow and the Columbia Broadcasting Orchestra play with feeling most of your favorites, including the dream music, on Columbia Records, and if I were to get any synthesis of any opera, this would be it. But the prize orchestral recording of the Christmas season is that of Gaetano Schiassi's beautiful. Christmas Symphony, superbly...
...think you will not find this in a symphony like the Schubert Second, recorded this month by Howard Barlow and the Columbia Broadcasting Symphony. I think you will find that for all its charm the symphony is but a pale copy of eighteenth-century models. Perfectly constructed in every way, harmonically and melodically and rhythmically irreproachable, still it is patently thin. It lacks the emotional guts that made a Mozart E-flat or Haydn 99th great. In short, it succeeds only as a technical imitation. Compare another early Schubert symphony, the Fourth or "Tragic," with its eighteenth-century counterpart...
Last week Mr. Barlow got a further explanation. A Los Angeles lawyer named John F. Clark sued for half of the $592,719. Commenting on his suit, Lawyer Clark explained that he took a "fatherly interest" in young Lester Barlow years ago. One result, said Mr. Clark, was a half interest in the Barlow bomb. He averred that he had a copy of a contract to this effect, explained that the original had been lost or destroyed. Inventor Barlow replied that Mr. Clark "never put one red cent into the work," nevertheless received $12,000 in 1924. Another...