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...Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer, conducted the orchestra in-his own new "Abertura Concertante" while not particularly remarkable or inspired, is pleasant and diverting. And knee-deep in a mid-western drawl, engrossed in his Lincolnian stance, speaker Will Geer skillfully assisted she BSO in the local premiere of Aaron Copland's "A Lincoln Portrait" to conclude the concert...
...last week's birthday concert, six surviving leaguers had written special compositions. They were performed by such topflight artists as Soprano Marjorie Lawrence and the Budapest Quartet. The small audience politely applauded the work of Boston-born Walter Piston (Quintet for Flute and Strings), Brooklyn-born Aaron Copland (Birthday Piece, On Cuban Themes For Two Pianos), French-born Darius Milhaud (string quartet), California-born Frederick Jacobi (songs about the prophet Nehemiah), Czech-born Bohuslav Martinu (Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano). Hit of the evening came at the program's close with Russian-born Louis Gruenberg...
...concerts, was unruffled by the wet evening. He knew that of the hardy hundreds who braved the rain, some were there to hear the light, pleasant band numbers: a grand march, a Strauss waltz, a fantasy for cornet. Others came for the tangier items by modern composers: Aaron Copland's An Outdoor Overture (led by the composer), a suite for band by the late British composer Gustav Hoist, works by Percy Grainger, Philip James, Stravinsky. Bandmaster Goldman caters to varied tastes, puts on music undreamed-of in oldtime band-concert days, when the Poet and Peasant Overture...
After a very successful premiere in Boston's Jordan Hall last week, the opera "The Second Hurricane," by Aaron Copland, will be presented in Sanders Theatre tonight at 8:30 o'clock, under the sponsorship of the Lowell House Music Society and under the direction of Leonard Bernstein...
...message of what democracy is, what we are fighting for." So first he telephoned Jerome Kern in Beverly Hills. Kern, who has been a Mark Twain enthusiast since boyhood (the first book he ever owned was Huckleberry Finn), jumped at the idea of a Mark Twain portrait. Copland wanted to do Walt Whitman in music, but was persuaded to tackle Lincoln. Virgil Thomson was best suited to his particular assignments. Since 1928 he has been composing musical portraits, sketching out his music (as a painter would) while the subject poses...