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...Williams and Milhaud, the result is quite different. Like a great translation which becomes a work of art by its own merits, a good transcription becomes a piece of music which can be enjoyed as a new work. Purists might still complain, but with far less justification. Two Bach cantata choruses were also enlarged, but not so successfully. Despite the quality of performance, the effect was marred by the excess of performers, especially in the second where a series of flute echoes were drowned out by the preceding blasts...
Poem on Stalin. Khachaturian has served his state well, and has been well served by it. Among his compositions is a Poem on Stalin. His pretty wife, Nina V. Makarova, who was a student of Miaskovsky's too, has written A Cantata for Molotov. She is working on an opera, ordered by the Bolshoi Theater, based on a story of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, a girl-Partisan heroine who was executed by the Nazis. Aram has won the Order of Lenin and two Stalin prizes (the last for his swirling, furiously rhythmic ballet, Gayane, a U.S. best-seller). He made...
...well-to-do parents (the Theatre Guild), Allegro has been given every advantage that money can buy. For nursemaid, Joe Taylor has a full-sized Greek chorus singing Richard Rodgers' pleasant tunes; for playing after school, a full-scale Agnes de Mille ballet; for wedding music, a virtual cantata. His most uninspired thoughts reverberate through loudspeakers; his quietest desires are wired for sound. As a result, Allegro gets too big for its roots and too elaborate to have an honest Our Town warmth. Snapshots in family albums lose some of their character and charm when blown up for public...
...provide music, Hussey asked Britain's Benjamin Britten, composer of dissonant operas (Peter Grimes, Rape of Lucretia), to write a cantata to words from 18th Century Poet Christopher Smart's poem, Rejoice in the Lamb. Composer Michael Tippett wrote a special Fanfare for the occasion, which was considered most impressive when perspiringly played in the church's gallery by -the Northamptonshire Regimental Band...
Charles W. Detjen; Harvard Orchestra; Bach Orchestra and Cantata; Food Relief Committee; Music Club...