Word: sym
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Promises. Moon began to get cold feet about his nice Canadian job. He hur ried to Washington for a ruling from the Atomic Energy Commission. He got sym pathy and consideration, but in six months of asking, he got no specific ruling. Last week he decided to tell his troubles to the press...
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...Fifth, had its U.S. premiere. It was large in scale, a great, brassy creation with some of the intricate efficiency and dynamic energy of a Soviet power plant and some of the pastoral lyricism of a Chekhov countryside. The man who introduced it to the U.S., the Boston Sym phony's famed Russian-born Sergei Kous-sevitsky, was ecstatic. He called the Fifth "the greatest musical event in many, many years. The greatest since Brahms and Tchaikovsky! It is magnificent! It is yesterday, it is today, it is tomorrow...
...work by one of their colleagues, the sessions are fairly harmonious. Fellow members, regarding another's work in the communal spirit, can tell him he has been composing too many chamber works, and should change his pace. Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony was commissioned (the going price for sym phonies: from 8,000 rubles up, plus performance bonuses) after his fellows decided that, since his last symphony was written in 1930, it was high time for another...