Word: mennin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Third composition on the program was Peter Mennin's Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra, which made fewer demands on the listener, and showed less originality and toughness. It provided a neoromantic contrast to Sessions, and for long stretches sounded as if it might have been titled "Mr. Brahms Goes to Juilliard." Composer Mennin, who has six performed symphonies to his credit, kept the orchestra mostly under wraps to make his concerto one long melodious song for Leonard Rose's fluent cello...
...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...