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Musical life in the Soviet Union was complex. As early as 1936, Prokofiev was slapped on the wrist for composing in too "urbanized" a manner. He corrected this by drawing on popular subjects, and casting them in heroic molds, as he did in his huge score for the film Alexander...
Before she left for home, Louise began to compose. Back in Saigon, she married Nguyen Van Ty, an engineer who has since become a Viet Nam delegate to the Assembly of the French Union. She spent the next 15 years there, giving piano lessons and an occasional recital, jotting down...
When her husband was sent to France in 1951, Louise and the two children went along, and she began to compose in earnest. Her biggest (yearlong) musical problem to date: scheming up the orchestral part for La Fete. Although she was unfamiliar with the instruments, she visualized a solution. "To...
He started creating music and playing the piano at home in Concord, Calif, when he was four. Later he studied at Mills College in Oakland with Composer Darius Milhaud (who remembers him affectionately as a "good composer"), and worked at "counterpoint until it ran out of my ears." When listeners...
The idea man and moving spirit behind Victory is Producer Henry ("Pete") Salomon, 35, wartime lieutenant commander who collaborated on Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's 14-volume naval chronicle of the war. Among his other accomplishments, Producer Salomon persuaded Rodgers and Bennett to compose what amounted to the...