Word: musically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...largest decrease in the number of honors candidates has been in the English Department which now has only 33 per cent of its concentrators out for honors, with Music, Astronomy, and Classics losing ground...
Igor Strawinsky, noted Russian composer of modern music, will give a free, public lecture tomorrow night on the topic "Du Phenomene Musicale," at the New Lecture Hall, at 8:15 o'clock...
...newcomer among the Sunday afternoon radio programs, the half-hour of contemporary music sponsored over WHDH by the Longy School is a step, though a small one, toward satisfying a very conspicuous need in radio music. These concerts will present the works of present-day composers, most of whom are writing prolifically in the smaller forms. The plan is timely and, we think, indicative of increasing interest among performers and audiences in the somewhat neglected realm of chamber and salon music. Though this is a non-commercial program, it is definitely not an amateurish undertaking, as the performers...
Only two works were performed last Sunday--Five Pieces for violin and piano by Prokofieff, and Roussel's String Trio, Op. 58. The String Trio is one of Roussel's last compositions. Like all of his music it is marked by dissonant harmonic and contrapuntal effects. In spite of this, the first two movements have a lyrical lushness which will probably be considered saccharine in not so many years. The last movement is in a style which Roussel favored in his middle life. Dance-like and acridly dissonant, it has the same verve for which many passages in the Symphony...
...this type of movement which removes Roussel somewhat from the spirit of the traditional French school. His ruggedness does not fit in with the extreme subtlety and delicacy of composers like Debussy. Ravel, and even Honegger. The difference in style is not surprising when one considers Russell's musical background. Though he spent much of his life in Paris, he was not a member of the Conservatoire, where almost all French musicians of the first rank have received their training. He was drawn farther away from traditional lines by the exotic influence of the music of the East to which...