Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gillis: Saga of a Prairie School (the New Symphony Orchestra, Don Gillis conducting; Texas Christian University, 6 sides). Composer-NBC Producer Gillis composed this, his "Symphony No. 7," in 1948 for the diamond jubilee of his alma mater. The pastoral passages have the feel of the prairie-of space and sagebrush, and there is some low-down hoedown too. The performance is good, the recording, made by London FFRR, excellent...