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...Decca). As a young man, Delius weny out from England to spend a year managing his father's plantation in Florida, and snatches of Negro spirituals seem to echo in the dreamy sequences of his only piano concerto. Playing with the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra under William Strickland, Marjorie Mitchell gives a full-blooded performance of the seldom-heard romantic work...
...Orchestra of Tokyo plays for the barn dance in Washington's Birthday, the Finnish Radio Symphony celebrates Decoration Day, Sweden's Goteborg Symphony the Fourth of July, the Iceland Symphony Thanksgiving. They manage fairly well, guided in each case by Ives's roving ambassador, Conductor William Strickland...
Charles Ives: Washington's Birthday and Three Outdoor Scenes (William Strickland conducting the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Imperial Philharmonic of Tokyo; Composers Recordings). The four previously unrecorded pieces by Ives run from a delightfully winterstruck evocation of all outdoors to the musical equivalent of pop art-an aural collage of clipped folk tunes and imitative sounds. On the other side, the music of Composer William Flanagan gives a chaste and lovely setting to an early poem that Edward Albee now likes to forget he ever wrote...
...morality of the biographical novel as practiced by Somerset Maugham (Gauguin is called Strickland) and Irving Stone (Van Gogh is called Van Gogh) is shaky but probably defensible; the gross offense of distorting a man's life can be justified to some extent if it helps the novelist to capture the quality of the man's spirit. But there is no literary or historical justification for the cynical trespass Herman Wouk has committed in Youngblood Hawke. It is not merely a distortion; it is an act of violence...
...have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa. They are: Barbara S. Gordon, a psychology concentrator, of Comstock Hall and Stamford, Conn.; Emily Shiling, a history and literature concentrator, of Jordan B and Baltimore, Md.; Karen Sue Cotzin, a social relations concentrator, of Holmes Hall and Worcester; and Stephanie M. Strickland, a history and literature concentrator, of Comstock Hall and Mt. Kisco...