Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strawinsky influence" is one of the most talked about aspects of modern music. It is so important that an analysis of the style of a contemporary composer more often than not contains some comparison with the style of Strawinsky...
Because of his tremendous effect on the development of twentieth century music a concert of his works is not only a demonstration of different aspects of Strawinsky's art, but also a showing of many ideas which have become basic characteristics of the contemporary musical idiom. Strawinsky himself will conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra in just such a program on Friday and Saturday when they will play The Card Game ballet music, the Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra, the suite from Petrouchka, and the Symphony of Psalms...
...prevailed among musicians in the last two decades. By various methods--from vague and theoretical presentation of his views as in the Charles Eliot Norton lectures, to his more specific writings and the practical application of his ideas in his compositions themselves--he has encouraged the concept of music as an essentially non-representational, independent artistic product...
Under pressure, Mapmaker Harrison often works all night, relaxes by playing Bach, Mozart and swing music on the Monograph beside his drafting board. His ambition: some day to make a U. S. atlas that satisfies himself...
Very Warm for May (music by Jerome Kern, book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd). First Kern musicomedy to reach Broadway since 1933, Very Warm for May brought out a glittering first-night audience. The audience proved much more glittering than the show. Kern's tunes were bright and strummy enough, but a raucous, epileptic plot made the show a bird that could sing...