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...Among previous winners: Peter Mennin, Harold Shapero, Ulysses...
...Shapero: Symphony for Classical Orchestra (Columbia Symphony conducted by Leonard Bernstein; Columbia). A brilliant composer of the younger generation, Massachusetts' Harold Shapero, 34, has an ear for bright sonorities, a gift for formal construction, and a fascination for bygone masterpieces that has caused controversy. This attractive work, completed in 1947, parallels his efforts in Beethoven, Haydn and Stravinsky styles, resembles Prokofiev more than any other model...
Also notable: an alternately brusque and limpid Sonata for Piano Four Hands by Harold Shapero, a crisp woodwind Quartet in C by Arthur Berger, both of Brandeis University; a series of gay brevities called Music for a Farce by Author-Composer Paul (The Sheltering Sky) Bowles. All were recorded under the com posers' personal supervision, a sometimes questionable practice that here results in some good performances...
...performance of Harold Shapero's Four-Hand Piano Sonata indicated that the interest of the two pianists is in contemporary music. Both devoted themselves to giving the work every advantage. Shapero composed the piece during his first year out of Harvard, and Leonard Berstein performed it with him for the first time...
...Massachusetts men to receive a second fellowship was composer Harold Shapero '41 of Newton Center...