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...veteran of his own premieres, Composer Walter Piston sat halfway back in Boston's Symphony Hall. Said he to a friend: "I'll run like a deer to get backstage, and then come out as if I were very reluctant about it. ... This sort of thing makes me wonder if it's worth the trouble to write a symphony...
Main fare of the evening will be the performance of two pieces, "Carnival Song" and "Fanfare for the Fighting French," by Walter Piston '24, Professor of Music and prolific American composer...
Included on the program are Serenata (1930) of Casella; Kirchenkantate no. 189, "Meine Seele nuhint and preist," by Rach with tenor Yves Tinayre, as soloist; Divertimento (1946) by Piston; Serenade a Angelique (1945) by Honegger...
Included on the program are Serenata (1930) of Casella; Kirchenkantate no. 189. "Meine Seele unhint und preist," by Bach with tenor Yves Tinayre, as soloist: Divertimento (1946) by Piston; Serenado a Angelique (1945) by Honegger...
...mile drive through New England in a revival of the Glidden Tour (an annual road race for horseless carriages which Financier Charles Glidden established in 1905 to popularize automobiling). The driver most in need of a horse: William E. Swigart Jr. of Huntingdon, Pa., whose 1908 Ford blew a piston head, broke a timing gear, contracted radiator leaks and collapse of the spark coil, and had seven flat tires before he got to the Hartford starting line...