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...year-old Orchestra of America, under Conductor Richard Korn at Carnegie Hall, presented a program of the kind of music it was founded to perform-little-known works by American composers. John Knowles Paine's Overture to "As You Like It" and Howard Hanson's Lux Aeterna proved merely to be pleasantly melodic, soundly constructed works with undistinguished profiles. Leon Kirchner's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra belonged to the crash-bang-and-meander school of modernism, with the violins chasing random single notes in sequence while the cello stuttered insistently, as if trying to interrupt...
...this situation there can, of course, be compromise. One sees no relatively important compromises worked out on the floor of the Council; perhaps both sides feel that they should not deal with the enemy in public. Eric H. Hanson, executive secretary of the CCA, and a regular observer of the Council in action, insists, however, that there have been frequent and important concessions by both sides paving the way for major steps. These seem to have been made informally in discussions between individual members and perhaps with the Mayor as mediator...
...With Hanson Robbins skippering the A division dinghy and Bill Saltonstall the B division one, Harvard swept the week-long championships in Providence late in June. Although its winning margin lessened towards the end of the week, the Crimson led consistently all week. Saltonstall, winning a very tight last race, became high point skipper for the B division and the whole regatta...
...Hanson: The Lament for Beowulf (Howard Hanson conducting the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra and Eastman School of Music Chorus; Mercury, mono and stereo). An early (1925), timbrel-thumping excursion into myth that seems as far from Anglo-Saxon England as Composer Hanson's birthplace (Wahoo, Neb.). The chorus protests too much, but in the gently welling final eulogy, the work stirs with a sweetly nostalgic, gracefully dappled light...
Though hindered by a further directorial failing on the part of Mr. Hanson, an inability or unwillingness to eliminate exaggerated poses and gestures, the actors were generally only slightly less than adequate. Frederick Blais as the father, and head of the Stanhope family, suffered most from this failing and played his part on too high a level from the beginning. This left him no room for growth of emotional intensity in the final scene, where he finally resorted to uncontrolled hysteria. Richard Knowles as the reporter managed by his tone and facial expressions to disguise the fact that the reporter...