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Fear in D Minor. Many movie composers-Schifrin, Joe Raposo, Billy Goldenberg and Jerry Goldsmith, for example-have classical music backgrounds. Goldsmith majored in music at U.S.C.; Goldenberg studied piano with his father. Schifrin's father was concertmaster of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra. Raposo studied in Paris with the legendary teacher Nadia Boulanger. "You have five more years of counterpoint," warned Mme. Boulanger when he announced his impending departure. She worried about her pupil's attraction to popular music: "What will happen to you is the same thing that happened to Gershwin." Replied Raposo: "I certainly hope...
Stone graduated from Harvard summa cum laude, won the Young Prize for "the best undergraduate thesis of summa quality," and won the Goldsmith Prize for the best research or seminar paper presented to the graduate school of Economics...
...demands for choral, orchestral and solo forces and spectacular in stage effects; in accordance with the Parisian fondness for such stuff, it was one of the favorites of 19th century French opera. Set in 1 5th century Switzerland, the story concerns the persecution of Eleazar, a Jewish goldsmith, and his foster daughter Rachel. Before his execution, Eleazar gets to sing one of the tenderest arias in tenor literature, Rachel, quand du Seigneur. Caruso and Martinelli sang the role, and Richard Tucker has been begging for years to sing it at the Met. So far, he has had to settle...
...Ellmann, Goldsmith Professor at New College in Oxford, notified the Administration of his decision late this summer. Alan E. Heimert, chairman of the English Department, said Wednesday...
...first niellist to substitute wet ink for hard paste, to press a sheet of paper onto the metal and so invent the copperplate engraving, seems to have been a Florentine goldsmith named Maso Finiguerra (1426-64). The technique suited its period. It demanded tough, precise outline drawing and responded to absolute clarity of form. Hence it was ideal for a precisionist like Mantegna, whose few engravings are almost mineral in their sharpness. Not even the drapery on his figures was soft; with deep cuts and cracking angles, it might have been carved from obsidian...