Word: ravelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ibert's music is more animated and fresh than his plot. A composer who owes a lot to Debussy and Ravel, he gives his orchestra a palette full of colors, his 40 singers (at Tanglewood, all students) arias and choruses with wit, tune and charm. Le Roi is the work of a king among craftsmen, if not of a composer working by divine right...
Dello Joio: Concerto for Harp and Orchestra (Edward Vito, harp, with the Little Orchestra Society, Thomas K. Scherman conducting; Columbia, 1 side LP). U.S. Composer Dello Joio (TIME, May 22) manages to write charmingly and effectively for the harp without sounding too much like either Debussy or Ravel. On the other side of the record, David Diamond's Music for Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" sounds like little more than warmed-over Prokofiev. Both performances and recordings: good...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Program of Sibelius, Ghedini and Ravel. Guest conductor: Victor de Sabata...