Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known principally for his choral works and arrangements of Negro spirituals. But last fortnight he joined the symphonic company of Composers Still and Dawson, when his sombre, ably orchestrated composition American Sampler was broadcast over the Columbia network by Conductor Howard Barlow. Last week, at the annual six-day Music Festival at Worcester, Mass., Composer Dett made musical news again. For the festival's opening program Conductor Albert Stoessel chose Dett's massive, spiritual-born oratorio The Ordering of Moses. Previously performed in Cincinnati and Manhattan, this tempestuous choral and orchestral work, based on Exodus, came near being...
Composer Dett was born of educated parents in Drummondville, Ont. in 1882. In 1908 he was the first U. S. Negro to receive a Bachelor of Music degree in composition. Further study at the Eastman School in Rochester netted him a Master's degree, on top of which he rounded out his training as a pupil of famed Pedagogue Nadia Boulanger (TIME, Feb. 28) in Paris...
Nathaniel Dett lives quietly in Greens boro, N. C., works hard at his job, Director of Music at Bennett College, aims steadfastly "to put Negro music on a truly dignified and artistic basis...
First program is a slam-bang kaleidoscope of the whole country-snatches of history, honky-tonk Chinatown music from San Francisco, sentimental plantation songs from the South, descriptions of Boulder Dam and Bonneville Flats, the U. S. national anthem (La Bannière Par-semèe d'Etoiles}. Three broadcasts are devoted to New York City, describing everything from Harlem's dance halls to Wall Street ("la maison Morgan, voilá guelque chose...
Walter Damrosch (Fri. 2 p. m. NBC-Blue), in 60 minutes of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Wagner. Grainger, Tchaikowsky and others, returns for his eleventh successive season as patriarch of classical music educators...