Word: marcs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Catholic in her teaching principles, Mile Boulanger has teethed a varied crew of composers: conservatives like Quinto Maganini, Douglas Moore and Virgil Thomson; wide-open Westerners like Oklahoma-born Roy Harris; jazz-bred Manhattanites like Aaron Copland and Marc Blitzstein; rip-roaring cacophonists like Walter Piston. But when the late George Gershwin visited her in Paris, proposed himself as a pupil, it took her only ten minutes to say no. Said Mile Boulanger: "I had nothing to offer him. He was already quite well known when he came to my house, and I suggested that he was doing all right...
...Cradle Will Rock (music and words by Marc Blitzstein; presented by the Mercury Theatre). To John Houseman and Orson Welles, the producers of Julius Caesar (TIME, Nov. 22), Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock is an old problem. They tried to produce it in Manhattan last June for the WPA theatre, were stopped on dress rehearsal night by a mysterious order from above. Now, without benefit of Government, they present it on their own bare stage for special performances. Author Blitzstein sits on the stage, plays his music, occasionally joins the actors as they step forward to sing...
...company, played there in A Young Man's Fancy, and parted, Miss Fontanne to Chicago with the company, Mr. Lunt to rehearse for Clarence, which Booth Tarkington had written for him. Their golden year was 1921. She had her first great success then, in the George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly Dulcy. And Actor Lunt, after a two-season run with Clarence, was established on Broadway. Next year they were married...
Thus went I've Got the Tune, written and composed for Columbia's Workshop by Marc Blitzstein, whose The Cradle Will Rock rocked the WPA Federal Theatre in Manhattan last spring (TIME, June 28), will be put on Broadway this fall on a number of Sunday nights. I've Got the Tune, with Composer Blitzstein singing the role of Mr. Musiker, was his and the Workshop's first venture in radio operetta. For some listeners, Blitzstein's mocking libretto was not without class-conscious implications, even his wiry-muscled music suggesting the notion voiced...
...filming of the damming of the Zuyder Zee. The sonorous Hispanic melodies that play in and out of The Spanish Earth were arranged by two of the most imaginative modern musicians in the U. S.-Virgil Thomson (Four Saints in Three Acts, The Plow That Broke the Plains) and Marc Blitzstein (The. Cradle Witt Rock...