Word: copland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Copland: A Lincoln Portrait (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting, with Melvyn Douglas narrating; Victor, 3 sides). Koussevitzky speeds up Copland's rhythms and Melvyn Douglas reads his lines like a carnival barker. Not so effective as Conductor Artur Rodzinski's 1946 version with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, which has Negro Baritone Kenneth Spencer's dignified narration. Performance: fair...
Orchestras of the Nation (Sat. 3 p.m., NBC). Dallas Symphony Orchestra in a program of Mozart, Hindemith, Copland. Conductor: Antal Dorati...
...their second show. There were two new ballets by Balanchine. Critics (whose papers had to buy them memberships to get them in) liked best his linear Divertimento, had kind words for Renard the Fox, to music by Stravinsky. Ballet Society has commissioned scores by Stravinsky, Paul Hindemith and Aaron Copland. Says Choreographer Balanchine: "In spite of all we have done, Americans do not appreciate ballet unless you bring something from Europe. We want to show that Americans are good...
...Brooklyn's Washington Avenue, where Roger Sessions was born 50 years ago, Aaron Copland was born four years later. In 1928 the two composers sponsored a Copland-Sessions concert series for contemporary music. During the past two years, Sessions has taught composition at the University of California along with his onetime teacher, Composer Ernest Bloch, and often visits France's Darius Milhaud, who teaches at nearby Mills College. In this stimulating atmosphere he has half-finished a third symphony and has begun a four-act opera called Montezuma. He started the Roosevelt symphony in 1944 at Princeton...
...evening concerts which will climax each day's work, new compositions by Walter Piston, Arnold Schoenberg, Aaron Copland, and Paul Hindemith will be played by the Walden String Quartet, the Collegiate Chorale of New York...