Word: cesana
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...symphony that is peculiarly a U. S. product. Jazz, or "Afro-American" symphonists prominent in recent seasons have included: Negro Composer William L. Dawson, who conducts the Tuskegee Choir, and whose Negro Folk Symphony No. 1 was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Conductor Stokowski three years ago; Otto Cesana, onetime staff composer at Manhattan's Radio City, whose two jazz-inspired symphonies have been broadcast by Radio Maestro Erno Rapee; 23-year-old Radio Arranger Morton Gould, whose Swing Symphonette is scheduled for performance later this season...
...orchestrator (he scored George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue}, Composer Grofe had come far from the time when he used to add melodic shimmer to such Whiteman numbers as the Song of India and Chansonette. Best non-Grofean work was a deeply-felt Negro Heaven of Otto Cesana. The whole concert pleased even pontifical old William James Henderson of the New York Sun, who unbent to write: "Mr. Grofe presents 'paper' music; his orchestra does not consist of swing men, and never is there any attempt to 'frisk their whiskers.' Indeed it must...