Word: smit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Symphony No. 1, by Philadelphia-born Pianist Leo Smit, 36, performed by the Boston Symphony under Charles Munch. The work, which was four years in the writing, is solidly constructed and pricked by a series of adroit, Stravinsky-like dislocations of rhythm. The strings are almost continually and often trickily active -so much so that they tend to drown out the detail of other instruments and blur the musical ideas...
Copland: Piano Concerto (Leo Smit, piano, Radio Rome Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer; Concert Hall). Sometimes called the "Jazz Concerto," this was written in 1926 (three years after Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue) and went far to establish Copland as a characteristically "American" composer. It is a fairly lurid work, with emphatic syncopations and jazz-age atmosphere; it still works, but it has become pretty corny...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Guests: Conductor Milton Katims, Pianist Leo Smit...
...bests-of-breed, most of whom will defend their blue-ribbon titles during the two-day Westminster show. Pointing eagerly toward this year's best-in-show award is the wire-haired fox terrier, four-year-old Ch. Wyretex Wyns Traveller of Trucote, owned by Mrs. Leonard Smit. Last May it beat the Doberman and won the nation's No. 2 classic, the Morris & Essex Show at Madison, NJ. Other breed champions: Pekingese Ch. Tai Chuo Sun of Dah Wong, owned by Sara F. Hodges and Aimée Ferret; Laura Franklin Delano's long-haired dachshund...
Copland: Sonata for Violin and Piano (Joseph Fuchs, violin; Leo Smit, piano; Decca, 1 side LP). One of U.S. Composer Aaron Copland's later (1942-43) and most lyrical pieces, masterfully performed. The record carries a matching performance of Stravinsky's neo-classical Duo Concertant on the other side. Recording: good...