Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...description in sound, fastidious, precise-minded Ravel had, following the death of Claude Debussy, succeeded to the place of No. 1 Impressionist composer. Born in 1875 in a Pyrenees town, of a Basque mother and a French-Jewish-Swiss father, Ravel kept all through life an affection for Spanish folk music, allowed its idioms to influence many of his compositions. Despite a reputation for extreme diligence at the Paris Conservatoire, where he matriculated in 1889, he quickly became known as an iconoclast, scandalized students and teachers by playing the works of then unrespectable modernist composers during school hours. Refusal...
They will present to their Boston audience music not only of Sibelius, but of various Finnish composers, including arrangements of folk songs of their own people...
Fighting a losing battle against time, and using the same weapon as the phonograph salesmen, anthropologists and folk-locists the world over are doing what they can to salvage the remnants of primitive music. Patient, ill-paid scholars sweat through the tropics holding microphones, and even old-fashioned dictaphones, to the mouths of aging tribesmen, hoping to catch and preserve melodies that are on the point of death. Collections of their records are kept in museums. Now & then a few are put on sale...
...HURRICANE'S CHILDREN-Carl Carmer-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Collection of 20 freshly-collected U. S. folk tales, interspersed with roaring prose poems, about the tall doings of such giant standbys as Paul Bunyan, such lesser-known U. S. genii as Ichabod Paddock and Kemp Morgan, a Nebraska newcomer named Febold Feboldsen...
...nationalist" composers have long sought to combine these two musical styles, to create a type of symphony that is peculiarly a U. S. product. Jazz, or "Afro-American" symphonists prominent in recent seasons have included: Negro Composer William L. Dawson, who conducts the Tuskegee Choir, and whose Negro Folk Symphony No. 1 was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Conductor Stokowski three years ago; Otto Cesana, onetime staff composer at Manhattan's Radio City, whose two jazz-inspired symphonies have been broadcast by Radio Maestro Erno Rapee; 23-year-old Radio Arranger Morton Gould, whose Swing Symphonette is scheduled...