Word: cantata
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Color is perhaps Henri Matisse's chief claim to fame-he paints with colors that are as loud as a Marine band, as subtly harmonious as a Bach cantata. But "what counts most in a picture," says 76-year-old Matisse, "is drawing and composition." Last week 22 of his black-&-white pen-&-pencil drawings went on view at the Manhattan gallery of his son, Pierre Matisse. It was the first show to come out of France since the war, and it revealed the French master at his joyful best...
...fight, has the hero's pal killed in the second reel to prove the job is really dangerous, ends with a chase and the happy mating of the hero. No. 2 is a musical. It opens with boy meeting girl, ends with boy getting girl and playing a cantata in Carnegie Hall...
...first performance of The War God, a cantata for orchestra and choir. Although they found it next to impossible to understand the words-from a poem by Briton Stephen Spender-most of the listeners in Manhattan's CBS studio were genuinely moved by the rich orchestration. After the performance, the cantata's composer, gaunt, chestnut-haired Richard Arnell, tall (6 ft.), 27-year-old Briton in a grey flannel suit, coolly explained: "It goes beyond simple pacifism by only presenting the facts and offering no moral conclusions...
Last week, two nights after the cantata broadcast, Pianist Vivian Rivkin premiered Arnell's Twenty-two Variations on an Original Theme in Carnegie Hall. Composer Arnell admitted that it had been a successful week: "CBS paid for copying the cantata scores. I spent only $10 for postage and a recording of the cantata performance-and I got two seats to Carnegie Hall...
Malcolm H. Holmes '28, will conduct the Pierian Sodality's presentation of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in a concert at Paine Hall in the Music Building, Thursday, April 19, at 8:15 o'clock. The orchestra will feature Bach's rarely heard "Italian Cantata" in its New England land premiere...