Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual Spartanburg, South Carolina, Music Festival on Friday, April 30, or, later, tuned in radio station WSPA at the proper time, you witnessed or heard a novel event in TIME'S history: the first performance, by a symphony orchestra and chorus of 70 voices, of Half Moon Mountain, a modern American ballad inspired by a story in TIME...
...have known about Half Moon Mountain almost since its inception. About a year ago Composer-Pianist Edwin Otto Gerschefski, dean of music at Spartanburg's Converse College, wrote us about his plan. He said he was a weekly reader of TIME with a habit of clipping stories and depositing them in the pocket of his jacket for easy reference. One such story, from the May 26, 1947 issue, had impr es s e d him so much ("I couldn't get it out of my mind") that he wanted permission to set it to music...
Gratified by the audience's reception of Half Moon Mountain, Gerschefski, who is 39 and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale with degrees in music and philosophy, said: "It is the kind of thing which Americans are trying to identify themselves with in a world that makes it impossible...
...ship's carpenter who fell off the Grace Liner Santa Clara one bright day in the Caribbean and was miraculously recovered by his ship, which had discovered his absence and put about for him. Gerschefski doesn't know whether it will make a ballad like Half Moon Mountain, but he is strongly inclined...
...There was also hope that they would not meet in an overcrowded Tower of Babel but, as it were, upon a mountain top ... To some extent, events have moved in that direction but not in the spirit or the shape which was needed...