Word: musicalities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last year, on the advice of Carleton Sprague Smith, affable Manhattan librarian and expert on early U. S. music, a harpsichord was obtained for the governor's palace, and U. S. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick was hired to put on a festival of 18th-Century music. So successful was Williamsburg's first music festival that in the autumn another was given...
Last week Williamsburg's third festival opened in the palace's candlelit ballroom. Guests were escorted from their carriages by pantalooned footmen carrying candle lanterns. Eight evenings of 18th-Century music for "Harpsichord, Hautboy, Violins and Violoncello" were scheduled. At week's end 20th-Century visitors were unconsciously bowing and reaching for their snuffboxes...
...evening in 1937 Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music presented to the public two one-act operas. What the critics came to hear was Le Pauvre Matelot, by one of the most famous of French modernist composers, Darius Milhaud. But what held them in their seats and sent them home happy was the light, tripping music and witty text of a little musical farce called Amelia Goes to the Ball, by an unknown graduate of the Institute, a youngster of 25 named Gian-Carlo Menotti. Next year Amelia made the Metropolitan, was so successful that it became a permanent...
Composer Menotti is not worried about opera's future. Chief troubles with it nowadays, he feels, are that its theatres are too big, its language foreign, its settings antiquated. A simple melodist in his own music, Menotti dismisses most modernists as bad craftsmen, thinks the salvation of music lies in a return to intelligible musical language. U. S. composers, he thinks, are under an unfair handicap: "You still want foreign names; that's one thing that has been in my favor." About his operatic preoccupation with feminine foibles, 27-year-old Menotti explains: "Women, to fascinate men, must...
Rulon Robison will give a song recital of songs by modern composers at the Harvard Music Building at 4:30 o'clock...