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...Longy School concert tonight will consist of music arranged for two pianos. The program includes the Piston Concertino for piano and orchestra, the Piano Concerto in A major and an Andante and Fugue by Mozart, and Ravel's La Valse. The practice of arranging orchestral scores for piano is one which can be very reasonably objected to on purely aesthetic grounds, for the music is certainly distorted in the process. The justification for such arrangements is a practical one. They are extremely convenient both for the student who can play them without orchestra and for the concert-goer who wishes...
...ripping vigor and angularity of this type of movement which removes Roussel somewhat from the spirit of the traditional French school. His ruggedness does not fit in with the extreme subtlety and delicacy of composers like Debussy. Ravel, and even Honegger. The difference in style is not surprising when one considers Russell's musical background. Though he spent much of his life in Paris, he was not a member of the Conservatoire, where almost all French musicians of the first rank have received their training. He was drawn farther away from traditional lines by the exotic influence of the music...
...only expensive," says Fearing, "but dangerous; it marks you as a public enemy. My first book [Angel Arms]disgraced me; my second [Poems'] bankrupted me; after my third one [Dead Reckoning] I was lucky to get away with my life." As his literary influences he names Composer Maurice Ravel, Painter George Grosz, Poets Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg. But no critic has accused him of imitativeness, except, at times, of himself...
Request Programme (Repeated) *"Pomp and Circumstance," March Elgar *"Tales from the Vienna Woods, Waltzes Strauss *Largo Handel *Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky *Second Hungarlan Rhapsody Liszt *Liebestraum Liszt-Herbert *Bolero Ravel *Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin Soloist: JESUS MARIA SANROMA *The Ride of the Valkyries Wagner Encores: *Introduction to Act III, "Lohengrin Wagner "Jealousy," Gypsy Tango Gade "Hora Staccato" Dinicu-Heifotz *The Flight of the Bumble Bee Rimsky-Korsakov...
...Lamp is Low (Mildred Bailey; Vocalion), another tuneful theft from the semi-classics-this time from Ravel's solemn Pavan for a Dead Princess. Tommy Dorsey has made a dancier version for Victor...