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Three years ago Musical America offered a $3,000 prize for the best symphonic work to be composed by an American. The judges were Conductors Walter Damrosch, Leopold Stokowski, Alfred Hertz, Frederick Stock, Serge Koussevitzky, and they chose unanimously from 92 scores an "epic rhapsody" called America by Ernest Block That the prize-winning music was by Bloch, who is considered by many the foremost U. S. composer, and that so distinguished an array of judges had professed themselves enthusiatic and promised, each one, to give America an early performance, combined to arouse more interest than could any blatant heralding...
...First was the Rhapsody in Blue and with it much talk of "classical jazz" gospeled by Paul Whiteman. Then came the Concerto in F, but by that time Gershwin had become a creed with many and the Concerto had its premiere in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall with Walter Damrosch and his New York Symphony. The third came last week. This time the orchestra was the Philharmonic-Symphony, the composition An American in Paris. It was a picture with sound effects. Deems Taylor, Gershwin's friend, summarized the scenario...
...place and ineffective away from Tin-Pan Alley. Certainly the Concerto, trying to be important, was unoriginal and dull. But with An American in Paris he has done better and dared to be himself in the presence of such betters as Wagner and Cesar Franck. Only Walter Damrosch seemed out of character at the concert last week. His conducting was kittenish, suggestive somehow of an old man out with a chorus girl who would like to make a whirl and does not quite know...
Conductors Damrosch, Hertz, Koussevitsky, Stock, and Stokowski judged the 12 scores submitted and unanimously chose "America...
...Walter Damrosch and the National Broadcasting Co.'s National Orchestra (TIME, Oct. 29) gave the world premiere of a symphonic work called S O S by one Robert Braine. Composer Braine had his inspiration a year ago in a radio station when S. O. S. calls came in from a Greek ship off Georgia. The same dots and dashes now punctuate his three-minute composition which, if uneventful, was fittingly enough the first to have its premiere by radio...