Word: herald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the San Francisco Examiner to the Roanoke World News to the Boston Globe, editorial comment was enthusiastically favorable, the survey found. According to the New York Herald Tribune, the statement "might have. . .responded only by negativism and obstruction. Happily, the AAU. . .has taken care to see that this is not the verdict. A report six months in the making . . . will stand as an authoritative statement of doctrine, in the light of which men's intentions can be judged...
Last week the Herald Tribune's shy, scholarly Critic Arthur Berger, 40, took his biggest leap: his Ideas of Order, a twelve-minute orchestral piece inspired by poems of Wallace Stevens, got its premiere from the Philharmonic-Symphony, conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos. The music had Stravinsky-like touches: nervous rhythms, clean, cool sonorities, a three-note theme scattered among instruments and pitch levels. But, in the richness of sound and in the three brief but searing climaxes, it was clear that Berger had a style...
...Rumble of Principles. The audience applauded warmly, and the critics nodded fraternally. "Purely esthetic, absolutely logical," wrote Noel Straus of the Times. "As simple and charming as a Haydn symphony," said the Herald Tribune's Jay S. Harrison. "A composer with principles," rumbled the Journal-American's Miles Kastendieck...
...covered modernist concerts for the tabloid Mirror while the more austere dailies were filling their columns with Rachmaninoff. Except for spells of teaching (at Mills and Brooklyn Colleges) and study (with Darius Milhaud and Nadia Boulanger), he has been at it ever since, is now the Herald Trib's most influential critic next to Critic-Composer (Four Saints in Three Acts) Virgil Thomson. On his days off, he has found time to compose a score of scores...
...Voyage. In St. Peter, Minn., the weekly Herald ran a classified ad: "WANTED: Man to handle dynamite. Must be prepared to travel unexpectedly...