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...real popularity, shows an astonishing total of 150 performances. He is now 13th on the list-just two places ahead of George Gershwin. Five years ago, Ives barely made it at all. The list of "since 1940" music is mainly notable for its featherweight: Richard Rodgers easily outpoints Francis Poulenc, and thanks to Candide and West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein takes precedence over Igor Stravinsky...
Concert tonight by members of the Summer School Chorus, John Ferris, Conductor. Program will include works of Schutz, Distler, and Poulenc, and a selection of English madrigals. 8:30 p.m. Lehman Hall. Free...
...instead of directed towards precise statement. The work of an eclectic laborer cannot possess independent life, whereas the work of the derivative artist cannot possess anything else. This was what T.S. Eliot meant when he said that immature poets borrow while mature poets steal. Stravinsky's Pulcinella is derivative, Poulenc's Gloria eclectic...
BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS (RCA Victor, 4 LPs). The nine players present a well-balanced, impeccably performed concert of Mozart, Brahms, Schubert, Poulenc, Villa-Lobos, Alexei Haieff, and the young American, Michael Colgrass. Having done so, they then upstage themselves by turning the fourth disk of the album over to a delightful discussion of chamber music by Peter Ustinov. "A Walter Mitty as far as music is concerned," Ustinov gives his imitations of a flute ("With my long, pendulous upper lip, I do better without the flute") and bassoon ("a very romantic instrument"). His musical god is Mozart. Noting that...
...There was, however, a certain unaccustomed tightness in his production which did not, in the end, mar the overall effect. Also featured were Allan Haley, tenor, Donald Meaders, baritone. Martin Kessler, baritone, an excellent sextet in Webbe's "Glorious Appollo," and Phil Kelsey doing several prodigious "swoops" in the Poulenc...