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Last week Philadelphia socialites took their apprehensions to the Academy of Music to hear Composer McDonald's new opus, entitled Lament for the Stolen. As the Philadelphia Orchestra and a black-&-blue clad chorus of 216 swung out under Eugene Ormandy's baton, listeners jumped and groped for their program notes. There they were partially reassured by reading: "The whole chorus, unaccompanied, announces fear and shock in a series of neoprimitive wails, punctuated by a shriek- the orchestra is agitated, and ... the soprano section speaks the words 'This is a terrible thing to be done...
...less terrible than they had anticipated. Aside from a screech or two, Composer McDonald had concocted his score with ingredients that recalled the work of several old masters. Press pundits, long critical of McDonald's lack of originality, loudly assured their readers that the title of his work, Lament for the Stolen, did not refer to McDonald's familiar-sounding themes and harmonies...
...LAMENT FOR A MAKER-Michael Innes -Dodd, Mead ($2). A poet-madman, lord of gloomy Castle Erchany, is found dead at the foot of his castle tower. Ingenious plot; scholarly, leisurely style; copious Scottish dialect...
Other speakers: Professor (economics) Nathaniel Waring Barnes of Columbia University; William Kenneth Anderson, Research Director for Lament, Corliss & Co.; Russell Young (Young & Rubicam Advertising Agency) ; Lee H. Bristol (Bristol-Myers Co.). President Mortimer Berkowitz of The American Weekly said darkly: "Most people do not think...
...until December of last year. . . . He had borrowed from Mr. Lament a large sum which was larger than he could displace without consulting me about it, from the firm assets, so he asked me whether it was all right to take it and he explained that he told me at that time- let me see-I want to get this right. As I understand it, he said, "Dick has got into an awful jam in November, and I went to Tom Lament when you were not here and he loaned me the money and so I want...