Word: rachmaninoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Patterson; and the Festival Brass Ensemble, conducted by John Corley. Both bodies displayed some raggedness, but on the whole performed well indeed. The first half of the program was devoted to 17th-century music by Buxtehude, Purcell, Monteverdi and others; the second half offered 20th-century works by Hindemith, Rachmaninoff, two Harvard-connected composers -- Walter Piston and Daniel Pinkham--and others. The most unusual part of the program came with Jacques Casterede's settings of three proclamations of Napoleon (well narrated by Robert Brooks), winding up with an over-whelming musical representation of the Battle of Waterloo for brass...
...favorite by Gilbert and Solomon," or to announce that "Rodger Hammerstein personally will conduct a number from South Pacific." To anybody familiar with her ways, it is per fectly obvious that when she announces a performance of "that wonderful concerto, the one with the tune," she is referring to Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C-Minor. To a radio audience she once announced that she was planning a pro gram by living American composers and added: "You'd be surprised to find how many American composers are living." A small, energetic woman, Minnie Guggenheimer labors...