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Subtitled Song of a New Race, Composer Still's newest work purports to "point musically to changes wrought in a people through the progressive and transmuting spirit of America." Its four movements are labeled "Yearning," "Sorrow," "Humor" and "Aspiration." Pleasantly sentimental in the moments when it was not jazzy, the score was more impressive in its clear professional instrumentation (Composer Still once orchestrated for Paul Whiteman) than through its intrinsic musical qualities. Minus its jazz content it might possibly have been a better symphony; minus its symphonic pretensions, its jazz moments would certainly have been better jazz...
...Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth...
...Sorrow...
...opening program of the Composers' Forum-Laboratory is as follows: String Quartet No. 2 Walter Hamor Piston. Three Songs Walter Raymond Spalding (A) Aubado (B) Sea Song (C) Sorrow and Joy Sextette for Wind Instruments and Piano Edward Burlingham Hill Trio in C for violin, violincello and piano William Clifford Hoilman Psalm 137 for mixed chorus Fan Stylian Noli
...story deals with the increasing sorrow of an up-from-the-gutter wife who sees the daughter she has raised from babyhood to womanhood won over to the rich, gentlemanly, but alienated husband. At the end, however, there is crowning joy as the mother sees her child achieve in a happy society marriage the prominence she had always longed...