Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fradd scoffs at body-building correspondence courses, advertised in many magazines. "Music size does not necessarily indicate power," he said. "It is the co-ordinated whole, rather than the bulk which determine physical fitness and muscular agility." Trend of Posture Ratings Grades...
...night's concert in the Sanders Theatre Series is full of originality, and should be especially interesting to Harvard men, The Boston Symphony Orchestra will play works by Haydn, Loeffler, and Piston. Beethoven's Fifth was to be last on the program, but instead our own Head of the Music Department, Professor Piston, will wind up the show by conducting his greatest (and only) symphony. Last year this symphony was played for the first time, and was a great success...
...fascinating play of orchestral color and unusual rhythmic invention. His harmonies are bold and original; the dissonances resulting from free polyphony rather than arbitrary use of discord for its own sake. "A Pagan Poem" shows the composer mystic, idyllic even macabre. The modal atmosphere often felt in his music is the result of a strong impression made on him by the Russian liturgy with which he grew familiar as a young man visiting in Russia...
Last spring, as the New Friends of Music concluded their second successful season without benefit of Park Avenue patronage, Ira Hirschmann announced, for the season of 1938-39, that the usual array of chamber-music events would be augmented by 1) a brand-new, 36-man chamber orchestra, and 2) a conductor: Fritz Stiedry of Vienna's Volksoper and Leningrad's Philharmonic...
...audio tube, Pulitzer-Prize Poet MacLeish pointed out that since radio engages only the ear, "verse has no visual presence to compete with. . . . The ear is already half poet." Poet MacLeish then proceeded to give the ears of the U. S. radio audience 30 minutes of the finest verbal music of its time...