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...music news happens in New York. TIME's story last week of Dr. Gustavus Capito of Charleston, W. Va. is a good example of the kind of coverage TIME's Music department attempts. Dr. Capito used to get a lump in his throat when he listened to Smetana's Moldau. He wondered why some American composer couldn't write as good a piece about the Kanawha, the river that flows through his home town. He offered to pay the conductor-composer of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra $1,000 for the kind of composition...
...James Chesnut was 38 when the Civil War began. Highbred and lively, daughter of a governor of South Carolina and wife of a Confederate Senator, she was the sort of Charleston hostess to whom Jefferson Davis, Stephen Mallory, Alexander Stephens, Robert Toombs and other pillars of the Confederacy told state secrets...
...Sinner. "I traveled with a racking headache and a morphine bottle," Mary Chesnut wrote of her trip from Charleston to the secession conference in Montgomery, Ala. "I felt a nervous dread and horror of this break with so great a power as the United States, but I was ready and willing." In Montgomery she went to supper with Governor Moore ("The old sinner has been making himself ridiculous with that little actress Maggie Mitchell"). She saw a Negro woman sold into slavery: "My very soul sickened." She said to a Northern-born woman: "If you can stand that, no other...
...year and a half ago public-spirited Physician Capito put a proposition to Conductor-Composer Antonio Modarelli of the 85-piece Charleston Symphony Orchestra: Capito would pay $1,000 for the kind of composition he had in mind. Modarelli agreed. Last week, along with West Virginia Governor Okey Patteson and the biggest Charleston symphony audience in history (2,500), Capito heard the result: a six-section program piece entitled River Saga...
Superintendent Thomas Ragland of the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. plant at South Charleston, who had played host to Modarelli when he was trying to get "a feel" for the industrial section of Saga, beamed at the sound effects of whirring machines and the tripping of interrupter switches. "Precisely as they are heard in the plant," said...