Word: foss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the leadership of Karl G. Kohn '48 and Margaret Sherman '50, the combined clubs have held regular monthly concerts of chamber music. Many of these have included such guest artists as Phyllis Curtin, soprano, and Lukas Foss, pianist. In addition, the Intercollegiate Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Samuel Adler, gave a concert in March at which works by contemporary composers were performed. The Orchestra included many of the most capable performers from colleges in the Boston area...
...Lukas Foss composed a musical score especially for the play but it has created several problems, acoustic and otherwise for Safer. Old Brattle Hall was built in 1890 before the days of the loud speaker. When Safer agreed to set up the loud speaker system for the HTW he had to calculate first where the sound ought to come from and then figure how to get the loud speakers there...
Simultaneous panels on drama and music are scheduled for Saturday morning. Elinor Hughes, drama critic of the Boston Herald, is slated to conduct the first; Boris Goldovsky and Lucas Foss, composer and pianist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will share honors at the head of the music panel...
Though the overture is too lengthy for its purpose, the new score of Lukas Foss blends in smoothly with the production, though not so gay as it is. The songs are particularly good. One very amusing scene, though brief and extraneous, is the visitation of the three goddesses to the newly-betrothed couple...
...Many of Foss' works have been performed by the Boston and other outstanding symphony orchestras in the country. At present, in addition to the work on "The Tempest," he is composing the first television opera...