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...French musician of his generation. It was not as the concocter of that booming bit of cafe music that Ravel drew this world-wide homage, but as the composer of two operas, numerous songs and chamber music works, and of a half-dozen suites and tone poems (Daphnis et Chloe, La Valse, Rhapsodic Espagnole, Alborada del Gracioso, Ma Mere I 'Oye, Le Tombeau de Couperin, et al.) which have long ornamented the symphonic programs of three continents. A miraculous orchestrator and an adept at poetic description in sound, fastidious, precise-minded Ravel had, following the death of Claude Debussy...
...Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra are giving an orchestral program at Symphony Hall tonight at nine o'clock. Brahms's Academic Festival Overture will be played as well as the slow movement and scherzo from Professor Hill's String--Sinfonietta, and Ravel's "Daphnis and Chloe" (second suite). The concert will close with Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Members of the orchestra under Dr. Koussevitzky will give a program of eighteenth century music at four o'clock tomorrow afternoon in Sanders Theatre. Bach's Suite No. 2 in B minor for Flute and Strings, Haydn's Symphony in G major...
...resources by an invalid husband. Fear of the poorhouse produced a nervous breakdown, to recover from which friends sent her to balmy Bay St. Louis, Miss. There Mrs. Gilmer met Mrs. Eliza Poitevent Nicholson, owner of the Picayune, to whom she showed a dialect piece called How Chloe Saved the Silver. It so impressed Mrs. Nicholson that she bought it for $3, told Editor Burbank to hire the author...
...symphonic novelty was played by the Philadelphia Orchestra last week. It sounded no harsh or eerie effects, embodied no attributes of the mechanical age, neither steel works nor jazz. It was music made for beauty's sake, music suggested by the old Greek legend of Daphnis and Chloe, a shepherd and a shepherdess who grew up together and loved inevitably. Violinist Efrem Zimbalist wrote it. Conductor Leopold Stokowski played it first in Philadelphia. In Manhattan next day he put it on the same program with Stravinsky's new violin concerto, a superficial showpiece on which Violinist Samuel Dushkin...
Married. Ira Clifton Copley, 66, publisher of Aurora (Ill.) Beacon News, Elgin (Ill.) Courier, Joliet (Ill.) Herald News, Illinois State Journal, San Diego Union and Tribune, onetime (1911-23) Illinois Congressman; and Mrs. Chloe Davidson Worley of Pasadena, Calif.; at Paris, France. Mr. Copley, whose first wife died, and bride began honeymooning on his yacht Happy Days...