Word: musicically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent election campaign drew from Serb-descended Ivan still further proof of his versatility. One night in Tucumán he dashed off a poem, declaimed it at a Peronista meeting. Set to lively music, it rapidly became the party's official song...
Arturo Toscanini had dug up many an obscure piece of Italian music, but this was the first time in many a year he had unearthed a new Italian conductor-one who "conducts like I do," which means with precision, drama, warmth and love. He had not known about Guido when he arrived in Italy for a visit last spring. He had slipped quietly in on a rehearsal in Milan, where his friend Violinist Nathan Milstein was rehearsing the Brahms Violin Concerto with the La Scala orchestra, and had been so impressed with the work of its Conductor Cantelli that...
Muzak's piped-in music programs had no spot for a composition in dead silence. But last week, hardy Manhattan concertgoers made a spot for Composer Cage's rhythmic, percussive "sounds & silence" music. At Carnegie Recital Hall for two nights in a row, Pianist Maro Ajemian thudded, clanked, bonged and chimed through 16 sonatas and four interludes on a "prepared" piano outfitted with bolts, screws, pieces of rubber and plastic stuck inside to short-circuit the tones. (After the first night, someone unCaged the piano, and the composer himself took three hours getting all the gadgets back into...
Since she gave away her houses in Chicago and Pittsfield to allow more money for music, Mrs. Coolidge has been living in a two-room apartment at the Hotel Continental. She continues to plan for the future, looking forward to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Foundation next year. For, the past she says, "I've had my share of thanks." And they have been plentiful. Though she was not decorated by the Russians when she gave a festival in Moscow in 1931, she has the Legion of Honor from France and Belgium's Order of the Crown and Order...
...every musician the world over." A declaration from President Roosevelt for the celebration of her eightieth birthday probably best expresses the gratitude of the public. "Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge has done what none before her had found the means to do. No one has contributed more to the understanding of music in America, and no one has given greater encouragement to writers and performers of music in America than Mrs. Coolidge...