Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work. A good part of his day will be spent "working in undisturbed peace." His Eighth Symphony, for which the world has been waiting twelve years, is drawing towards completion. So perhaps is his life's work. As a level-headed countryman, he knows that, having passed three score and ten, none of his remaining vigor need be spared for fripperies. At 72, important tasks still remain to be accomplished...
...night. He proudly remembers that in his younger days he often worked three nights and two days at a stretch. Seldom does he use the piano when composing. He conceives and elaborates his ideas in his mind and puts pen to paper only when every detail of the score has been thought out. Once his notes are down on paper, he seldom makes alterations, and has often sent scores to publishers without bothering to try them out on any instrument...
Except for the Martha interlude, the music is the last complete score done by the late George Gershwin. (He was working on tunes for the Goldwyn Follies when he died last summer.) Brother Ira Gershwin did the lyrics. Catchiest number: Nice Work...
...indoor baseball league yesterday, Kirkland House just squeezed out a victory over Winthrop by a 5-4 score. Battling nip and tuck over the whole five inning route, the Deacons sent the winning tally across in the final frame when the Puritan pitcher weakened...
...Koussevitsky has announced for the eighth pair of concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra next Friday afternoon and Saturday evening, the Third Symphony by Edward Burlingame Hill '94, a new score which is to be heard for the first time and performed from the manuscript...