Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sessions: Three Chorale Preludes (Marilyn Mason, organ; Esoteric). In Composer Sessions' later works, the melody is sometimes pretty hard to follow, but these short pieces of 1924-26 bring it out clearly. Two of them are slow, serene and almost spiritual; the third is harsh and craggy. The organ is well-played and cleanly recorded...
...Organ Music by Modern Composers (Richard Ellsasser; M-G-M). Some of the gaudiest organ sounds outside the Roxy are mixed with some in a more reposeful vein in these nine pieces. Among the best: Bartok's En Bateau, a flashy, seasick impression of a boatride; Copland's Episode, a neat vignette that builds from nearly nothing to a roiling climax; Milhaud's delicately tinted Pastorale; Messiaen's mystical Le Banquet Celeste...
...richest men in the U.S. (estimated daily income: $200,000), Texas Oilman Haroldson Lafayette Hunt has already pushed into radio and TV with his nationwide Facts Forum programs (TIME, Jan. 11). He also puts out a monthly house-organ Facts Forum News, which goes free to a mailing list including Congressmen, radio-TV stations, newspapers, commentators, etc. Last week word got out that Oilman Hunt had bigger publishing ambitions. To Manhattan he had sent a representative to try to buy two big national magazines, monthly Coronet (circ. 3,565,122) and biweekly Collier's (circ...
...what do you see?" But the patient shouted to the interpreter: "Why does he ask me what I see? He made the operation. He should know!" And she tells of Dr. Schweitzer's menagerie of pet animals, and how he always keeps a rug thrown over the organ-style pedals of his piano so that his baby antelopes will not break their legs...
Dubois: The Seven Last Words of Christ (Boston Chorale, organ and soloists conducted by Willis Page; Cook). A major effort by a minor 19th century composer. The disk is notable chiefly for its remarkable sound reproduction, some stirring choral singing, and the beautiful soprano voice of Margo Stagliano. Available in binaural recording...