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Before the eight-week festival is over, audiences will hear works of Bela Bartok, William Schuman, Samuel Barber, Peter Mennin, Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Hindemith and Composer Harris himself. Said he: "I'm not worried about people liking contemporary music; all I want is for them to get acquainted with it." People who don't get acquainted this summer will have another chance next year...
...Italian musical circles, short, homely Composer Luigi Dallapiccola is affectionately known as Il Bruttino-The Ugly One. For some Italian critics, the name also applies to his dodecafonico music. In Italy, the land of Verdi and Puccini, Luigi Dallapiccola, 46, is the chief disciple of Arnold Schoenberg's strange-to-the-ear twelve-tone technique...
...Schoenberg: Serenade, Op. 24 (Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting a string and woodwind septet with baritone voice; Esoteric Records, 2 sides LP). Composed in 1923, this is one of the first works in which Schoenberg utilized his twelve-tone technique. After a few hearings, something listenable begins to emerge. Performance and recording: good...
...establishing a Serge Koussevitzky Foundation Music Collection, consisting of manuscripts of 35 works commissioned by Koussevitzky since 1942. Among them: Benjamin Britten's opera, Peter Grimes, Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, Darius Milhaud's Symphony No. 2, Aaron Copland's Symphony No. 3, Arnold Schoenberg's Survivor from Warsaw, Ode, by Igor Stravinsky, Marc Blitzstein's opera, Regina, which last week closed a Broadway run of 56 performances...
...tell you about all the news in music: the rise of an attractive new jazz singer like Mindy Carson (TIME, Aug. 1); an account of the monumental recording task which Harpsichordist Wanda Landowska undertook in her 70th year (TIME, June 20); the controversial case of Composer Arnold Schoenberg (TIME, Nov. 15, 1948). This week the news is the Sadler's Wells Ballet company, the impact it has had on New York and will have on all the cities on its tour...