Word: mennin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broadcast Music, Inc.) prize for a woodwind trio. He also set to work on an orchestral piece called Sinfonia Sacra, submitted it to the annual George Gershwin Memorial Contest. The judges: Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, Musicologist Carleton Sprague Smith, Composers Aaron Copland, Morton Gould and Peter Mennin...
...Among previous winners: Peter Mennin, Harold Shapero, Ulysses...
Louisville Orchestra (Sat. 10:30 p.m., CBS). First radio performance of Peter Mennin's Symphony...
Before the eight-week festival is over, audiences will hear works of Bela Bartok, William Schuman, Samuel Barber, Peter Mennin, Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Hindemith and Composer Harris himself. Said he: "I'm not worried about people liking contemporary music; all I want is for them to get acquainted with it." People who don't get acquainted this summer will have another chance next year...
...fast first movement, Mennin led the strings and woodwinds over hill & dale on a merry chase, with the brass barking right along with them. The softly-bowed melodic slow movement gave everyone, including the listeners, a few moments of reflective rest. Then, in a galloping finale, the whole orchestra took up the chase again...