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Formed last fall under the direction of Irving Fine, associate professor of Music, the chorus will feature the premiere performance of a new Mass by Igor Stravinsky and a series of contemporary compositions including selections by Aaaron Copeland, Lukas Foss, and Robert Middleton...
...Somewhere in a clump of birch a lone flutist piped the theme of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe. Down by the shores of inky Lake Mahkeenac, a brass section blared Moussorgsky's A Night on Bald Mountain, and inside the lakeside clubhouse 23-year-old Composer Lukas Foss, a Koussevitzky favorite, beat out a frenzied boogie-woogie...
Forresi Theodore Foss...
...Composer Foss is now 22, and well on his way. Pianist for the Boston Symphony, he has already won a Manhattan Music Critics' citation and a $1,500 Pulitzer fellowship. Last summer, he conducted a Stadium performance of the Philharmonic. He says that he wants people to forget his German birth, his French music-student days. Says he: "I want to be considered an American composer. I want to be one of the boys...
...Lukas Foss's music is far from Sandburg's prairie: it is modern, glittering, sophisticated, plainly rooted in Europe. Critics were somewhat baffled last week by the cantata which mixed Foss champagne with Sandburg cornbread, but gently pronounced Composer Foss a promising young...