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...MARC BLITZSTEIN: THE CRADLE WILL ROCK (Piano and vocal chorus; Musicraft: 14 parts). Musical highlights...
Broadway show recorded by the original cast with Composer Blitzstein at the piano. What was vastly effective as musical scene painting (TIME, Dec. 13), is noisy & facile as music pure & simple...
...Cradle Will Rock. Marc Blitzstein's original, hard-hitting strike-set-to-music (TIME...
Catholic in her teaching principles, Mile Boulanger has teethed a varied crew of composers: conservatives like Quinto Maganini, Douglas Moore and Virgil Thomson; wide-open Westerners like Oklahoma-born Roy Harris; jazz-bred Manhattanites like Aaron Copland and Marc Blitzstein; rip-roaring cacophonists like Walter Piston. But when the late George Gershwin visited her in Paris, proposed himself as a pupil, it took her only ten minutes to say no. Said Mile Boulanger: "I had nothing to offer him. He was already quite well known when he came to my house, and I suggested that he was doing all right...
...Cradle Will Rock (music and words by Marc Blitzstein; presented by the Mercury Theatre). To John Houseman and Orson Welles, the producers of Julius Caesar (TIME, Nov. 22), Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock is an old problem. They tried to produce it in Manhattan last June for the WPA theatre, were stopped on dress rehearsal night by a mysterious order from above. Now, without benefit of Government, they present it on their own bare stage for special performances. Author Blitzstein sits on the stage, plays his music, occasionally joins the actors as they step forward to sing...