Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Richard Strauss: Symphonic Domestica (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Victor: 10 sides). Composer Strauss' at his most realistic, depicts the pleasures, worries and bickerings of his own family circle, manages even to reproduce the gurgle of the drain in the family bathtub. Judged as music pure & simple, it is one of his finest scores, given its first (and a brilliant) recording...
Buxtehude: Missa Brevis, and Johann Hermann Schein: Motet "Die Mit Tranen Säen" (Motet Singers, Paul Boepple conducting; Musicraft: 4 sides). In 1700, grand old man of European music was a Swedish composer and organist named Dietrich Buxtehude. His quaint, archaic Missa Brevis is as deft and complicated as a Renaissance tapestry. Composer Schein's motet, added for good measure, was written about half a century earlier...
Starting next Monday E. Power Biggs, head of the Organ Department at the Longy School of Music, will give a series of six weekly recitals of preBach music on the Germanic Museum's famous baroque organ...
Says Biographer Monrad-Johansen: "In following Grieg's development it becomes evident that musical feeling in Norway, though of an abundant richness and variety, lacks the technical resources . . . necessary for expression in the form of 'art' music. Grieg shows how far this unique material can be dealt with by a technique with which it has indeed some features in common but which in important respects has a restrictive rather than a liberating effect upon...