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...Harl McDonald: Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Jeanne Behrend and Alexander Kelberine, pianists, the Philadelphia Orchestra with Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor: 6 sides). By the Colorado-born composer (Rhumba Symphony, Lament for the Stolen) whose work the Philadelphia Orchestra has consistently given first hearings, and who last week, following the orchestra's recent troubles, took over his duties as its latest manager. The bang-up last movement of the concerto is based on two Mexican dance rhythms, the Juarezca and Malague...
Last month, when Philadelphia Composer Harl McDonald announced the first performance of a composition for women's chorus and orchestra commemorating the Lindbergh kidnapping, Philadelphians were apprehensive...
...HARL MCDONALD: Two HEBRAIC POEMS (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Victor). Short, agreeable impressionistic pieces by a steadily developing younger U. S. composer...
...Mexican Indian was Manuel Ponce who contributed Chapultepec, a suave Frenchy picture of the cypress woods which surround the castle in Mexico City where the ill-fated Maximilian once lived. The cowboy was Harl McDonald, now a teacher at the University of Pennsylvania, who meant his Santa Fé Trail to describe the trek of New England pioneers across the blistering desert. The McDonald pioneers were not a hardy lot and their mood, more often than not, was touched with the Russian melancholy of Tchaikovsky...