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...sort known as fanfares. Nineteen responded. Six Goossens fanfares are now being played by the NBC Orchestra in six weekly broadcasts of Music at War.* They are Morton Gould's Fanfare for Freedom; Henry Cowell's Fanfare for the Forces of Our Latin-American Allies; Paul Creston's Fanfare for Paratroopers; Felix Borowski's Fanfare for American Soldiers; Leo Sowerby's Fanfare for Airmen; Goossens' Fanfare for the Merchant Marine...
...their minds, they had ruled out Roy Harris' "agricultural" Fifth Symphony (TIME, March 8), Aaron Copland's melodramatic Lincoln Portrait, William Schuman's timely but tiresome Prayer-1943, Morton Gould's featherweight Spirituals for String, Choir and Orchestra. The award went to Manhattan-born Paul Creston, 36, for his neat, rather brittle, and relatively old-fashioned First Symphony...
...many, the theory that the great age of symphonic composition is past may seem a foregone conclusion. But few musical theorists would put any time limit on music of distinctive character and value. What won Creston his award was the deft workmanship of his composition. Bristling with intricate rhythms and neatly joined phrases, it seemed to know where it was going, even if it did not go very...
...Great Reader. Paul Creston's real name is Joseph Guttoveggio. He was born on Manhattan's lower East Side. When he was eight, his father thought Joseph had the makings of a concert pianist, bought him an old piano for $10. Joseph never became a top-flight pianist, but for ten years he practiced like mad, spent his spare time composing little piano pieces...
Today stocky Paul Creston lives in a crowded three-room apartment in Queens, surrounded by a concert grand piano, a wife, two noisily playful children and a massive library. There he composes, teaches a number of piano pupils, practices the works he plays as organist of Manhattan's St. Malachy's Church. An individualist, Creston is not a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, believes in doing business with U.S. conductors and symphony orchestras himself. That business, during the past six months, brought him just $700 in performance royalties...