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Life & Love. Although he is neither a trained musician nor an anthropologist, Lomax has arrived at some general conclusions. For example, people in remote (often Northern) parts of continental European countries tend to "take life and love easy"; they sing in choral groups with open throats, often using frankly sexual words and lyrics. As he moved to less remote areas, Lomax found increasing "frustration and melancholy," accompanied by a nasal, constricted-throat, high-pitched style of singing that comes originally from the Orient...
Died. Walter Schumann, 44, who described himself as a "commercial musician," composer, director of The Voices of Walter Schumann, a 20-member choral group; of a heart ailment; at University Hospital, Minneapolis. Walter Schumann's credits were various and occasionally bizarre. In 1941 he published The Hut-Sut Song (lyrics: "Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla brawla sooit . . ."), also wrote the famed dum-da-dum-dum theme of radio-TV's Dragnet series...
Died. Florent Schmitt, 87, French composer of ballet (The Tragedy of Salome), chamber music (Quintet in B Minor), piano, orchestral and choral music (Psalm 47) ; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. In June the audience at the opening concert of the Strasbourg Festival heard a sparkling phenomenon: Florent Schmitt's new and youthfully buoyant first symphony, premiered in his 88th year...
...Summer School Chorus will give its annual free public concert on Aug. 14, at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. The 150-voice group under the direction of Harold C. Schmidt, Professor of Music and Director of Choral Music at Stanford, is the largest aggregation in the Chorus's history...
Members of the Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society arrived Friday afternoon for two rehearsals of the Mass, and participated in Tanglewood's varied program of week-end activities--including swimming, rowing, small concerts, and picnicking...