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...prize for the best symphonic work to be composed by an American. The judges were Conductors Walter Damrosch, Leopold Stokowski, Alfred Hertz, Frederick Stock, Serge Koussevitzky, and they chose unanimously from 92 scores an "epic rhapsody" called America by Ernest Block That the prize-winning music was by Bloch, who is considered by many the foremost U. S. composer, and that so distinguished an array of judges had professed themselves enthusiatic and promised, each one, to give America an early performance, combined to arouse more interest than could any blatant heralding of just another prize symphony. High hopes, then, seemed...
They heard a symphony which has for its scope the story of the development of America, the definition of its powers. "O America, because you build for mankind, I build for you." Thus did Composer Bloch quote from Walt Whitman on the flyleaf of his score. Then for the first movement, under the head "1620," come sound pictures of colonial days, of Indians hearing the mournful call of death, of pilgrims arriving jubilantly in answer to the first loud, clear call of America (the theme is easily marked as the outstanding one in the anthem). Dark days come...
...Bloch started the score in 1916, when he was inspired on entering New York harbor from Austria, and ended it in 1926. He has spent much time in studying American folk songs and rhapsodized quotations from many of them occur throughout the piece...
...program, which is the same for both concerts, follows: Schubert Symphony in B Minor I. Allegro moderato II. Andante con moto Ravel "La Valu" Bloch "America...
...also been announced that the Glee Club, in conjunction with the Radcliffe Choral Society, will sing parts of Bloch's "American Symphony" when it is played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Friday, December 21, and Saturday, December...