Word: counterpointing
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...music entirely pleasant to listen to. The Borodin "Polevetskian Dances," the Cimarossa and the Gilbert and Sullivan choruses were especially effective. There was a strikingly small amount of froth on the program, in fact, the finale from Piston's "Suite for Orchestra," a vigorous movement, full of strongly dissonant counterpoint, was a little meaty, perhaps, for such a casual audience. This program culminates a year of cooperation between music at Harvard and the Boston Symphony Orchestra which has made possible performances of Beethoven's "Mass in D" and the Brahma "Requiem," and has added so much to the content...
...picked a boyish, bearded, 28-year-old Nebraskan named Howard Hanson. Director Hanson's main interest was composition, and it was not long before he had turned Eastman's music school into a gigantic incubator for young U. S. composers. For them Director Hanson provided classes in counterpoint, a symphony orchestra, and even a ballet company to play their works. He installed a recording system, made phonograph records of students' lopsided sonatas and sway-backed symphonies, so that they could study their faults over & over again. Nine years ago Director Hanson held a Festival of American Music...
Oddities-of-the-month: Famed Guitarist Phil Lang's band v. Mozart on Counterpoint a la Mode (Brunswick); Joan Crawford, recorded for the first time, singing I'm In Love with the Honorable Mr. So and So (Victor...
Hindemith has developed an idiom which he has perfectly in his grasp. He has not deserted the old and tried elements of tonality and traditional counterpoint; he has rather employed them as the foundations of a clearly successful and effective idiom. He is one of the most vital and influential figures in contemporary music and it is to be hoped that he will continue to make his contact with America a personal as well as musical one. In view of his treatment at the hands of the present regime in Germany, and his prolonged visits to this country, there...
Were singing in counterpoint their undeveloped...