Word: creston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mostly, the Poles stamped for the same old warhorses the Clevelanders had played elsewhere-Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Strauss's Don Juan, excerpts from a Ravel Daphnis and Chloö suite. There was little stamping-only applause-for newer works (by Wallingford Riegger, Samuel Barber, Paul Creston, Bela Bartok). Said Dziennik Polski: "The Cleveland Orchestra plays like one magnificent soloist . . . A thing like yesterday's concert was never before seen or heard here...
Both the Red Sox and Charles find the Florida sun not unpleasant. Pierre is off the bench, and will hurl at Haydn, Creston and Schubert. Symphony Hall. 60 cents in the second deck for today's 2:15 p.m. tilt. Saturday 8:30 p.m., bleachers generally filled...
Future names on the festival program furnish a virtual Who's Who in American Music, including Composers Walter Piston and Roy Harris, Aaron Copland, Paul Creston, Wallingford Riegger, Henry Cowell, Norman Dello Joio...
...ordinary flute, piano and vocal sounds, recorded and then sometimes distorted beyond recognition by various mechanical and electronic means. The composition got notice as far away as Baltimore, where the Sun protested: "Down with Space Music . . . Give us a penny whistle." Sandwiched between Stravinsky's Firebird and Paul Creston's Symphony No. 3, the work actually was surprisingly gentle on the ears; by comparison, the unidentifiable flutings and reverberations from the machine sounded only slightly outlandish...
Next day the kids did something unprecedented. They paid for a three-column bread & butter note in the Creston News Advertiser: "Thanks to the people of Creston. We had such a good time . . . We'll never forget...