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Giving their second performance of William Schuman's "Free Song" in two weeks, 55 men from the Harvard Glee Club will travel down to Carnegle Hall tomorrow for an afternoon concert with the Boston Symphony under the direction of Serge Koussevitsky...
...born conductor had Manhattan's surliest critics holding their breaths with excitement. He was an earnest-looking, square-faced, 26-year-old Californian, Robert Shaw, and he was conducting a hastily trained chorus of 170-odd singers in a program of modern music by Manhattan's William Schuman...
Professor Frederick L. Schuman of Williams is the author of a leading article which falls below the standards of the issue as a whole. Starting from the unassailable premise that Allied soldiers have no faith strong enough to match that of the Wehrmacht, Professor Schuman indulges in phrases such as "supersede national sovereignity" with no discussion of the tremendous obstacles involved...
...survive. To fail here will be to fail everywhere. To succeed here will be to prove the truth of the President's words: #We of the United Nations have the power and the men and the will at last to assure man's heritage." FREDERICK L. SCHUMAN...
...works is the American Festival Overture, written for Koussevitzky in 1939, and based on a boys' street call "wee-awk-ee" (meaning "c'mon over"). This month the Overture is out on a record (National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hans Kindler; Victor). The first major example of Schuman's music on disks, it is a lusty, cleanly written, skin-deep score. No atonalist, William Schuman composes with independent spirit, says of his music, "For better or worse, it sounds the way I want...