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Malipiero's "La Terra," also in Latin, is Virgil in his loveliest pastoral vein and the Venetian master at his sweetest. All is suave and dreamy, with constant rhythmic complexities and a wealth of melody and grace that suggest the careless abundance of nature itself. Perhaps it is over-dreamy, for even the storm scene is mild; but the peaceful pastoral tone has rarely been achieved in our time with such expressive variety or with such sustained musical interest. "La Terra" is more than a distinguished piece of work. It is original, interesting, expressive, and beautiful...
...start performances, a group of Hollywood's best studio musicians organized their own symphony orchestra. Last week, their Santa Monica Civic Symphony Orchestra, with Jacques Rachmilovich conducting, made its recording debut with Aram Khachaturian's Masquerade Suite (Asch, 5 sides). Although it has little of the pounding, rhythmic vigor of the Soviet composer's later Gayne Ballet Suite (TIME, March 24), this graceful reflection of a glittering Imperial Russian ballroom makes smooth and pleasant listening. Dmitri Kabalevsky, another Soviet up-&-comer, gets a single side in the album with a galloping Fete Populaire. Both performances are excellent...
...more machines help on other problems. The flashmeter throws a word on a screen for an instant, testing readers the "aircraft recognition" way. The metronoscope flashes sentences in phrases; it breaks the word-by-word habit and the rereading habit, builds rhythmic reading...
...founding a Church of the Divine Dance. "People mustn't think this is a phony," said she. "I am an Episcopalian." This church, however, would be "universal, nonsectarian." Dancer St. Denis hoped to get ministers in to preach guest-sermons; she would preach herself; and she and a "rhythmic choir" would explain things further by dancing.* Mystical-minded, dead-earnest St. Denis had often toyed with such a project before, but nothing much ever came of it. "I want now to work for God and nothing else," said she. ". . . Joyously I will dance the measures of the Eternal music...
Even in pure musicomedy terms, Beggar's Holiday has as many ups & downs as an elevator. But when it forgets that John Gay ever lived, and the mixed white and Negro cast sings and stomps to Duke Ellington's rhythmic tunes, Beggar's Holiday has real high spirits and character...