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Different Esthetic. There was a time when the thrill of a composer's life was a concert performance of one of his works. Now most composers see the concert hall and the LP as separate, but equally rewarding, mediums. Penderecki prefers to hear romantic music in the concert hall, but listens to Bach and Handel in the quiet and privacy of his home. As for his own music, he thinks the dramatically extroverted St. Luke Passion belongs in the auditorium because it should involve people as a group. When it comes to such works as Polymorphia and Dies Irae...
...electronic idiom. To them, composition means either recording real-life sounds on tape and then transforming them electronically (musique concrete), or starting from scratch with an electronic sound synthesizer like the Moog (TIME, March 7). Electronic composers "write" on tape; their music was never intended for the traditional concert hall. "The trouble with the concert hall," says California's electronic composer Morton Subotnick, "is that it requires a social and theatrical esthetic that really has nothing to do with our music." Germany's Karlheinz Stockhausen, who today works primarily in the electronic idiom, agrees: "I make everything...
...This week Sinfonia comes out on a superbly engineered Columbia LP. Even though Berio conducted the premiere, he believes that the LP release will probably be a more satisfying event. From a purely esthetic point of view, the work will be clearer and more forceful than any concert-hall performance so far. A concert, moreover, is heard today and gone tomorrow. But the LP Sinfonia will be sold, perhaps for years, all over the world...
...DAYS OF MR. McGRAW by Joseph Durso. 243 pages. Prentice-Hall...
...York Giants bought Mc-Graw's genius in 1902 and made him player-manager. On and off the field, his style perfectly suited the abrasive, autocratic temper of the times. The lions of Broadway and Tammany Hall loved the feisty little manager. He drank at The Lambs club with George M. Cohan, and eventually became one of Mayor Jimmy Walker's favorite cronies...