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Wails & Dissonances. Bartók based his music on thousands of Hungarian folk songs he had recorded on primitive cylinders in remote Hungarian provinces, some as early as 1905. He always traveled as far as he could from the railroads, and sought out the oldest shepherds and peasants he could...
A week after the capture of Naples. Lang came very near being killed in the bombing explosion that wrecked the post office. "I had just seated myself next door when it happened," he cabled. "A sudden overwhelming roar, then shattered glass tinkling all around us. It was dark; huge masses...
Igor Stravinsky conducted his own dissonant version of The Star-Spangled Banner at a highly successful Boston Symphony Orchestra concert. Of the anthem, the Associated Press discreetly noted that the audience's "reaction indicated clearly that the Stravinsky arrangement never would take the place of the more familiar version...
The Glee Club under the direction of Harold Schmidt opened the concert with "Let Your Celestial Concerts All Unite" from the oratorio "Judas Maccabeus" by George Frederick Handel, rendered with the usual precision but without the usual roundness of tone. In the second number, "Gentle Johnny", and English folk song...
Most of the musicians are veterans of the old Chicago days. Consequently, their music can't be anything but authentic. Better still, the tames they play (Panama, Muskrat Ramble, Sugar, That's A'Plenty), are all products of the twenties, and therefore the correct vehicle for the unique Chicago style...