Word: symphonicment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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No one has written a symphonic poem which sounds so admirably like a locomotive as famed Arthur Honegger, head of that ultraModern group of Parisian composers, Les Six. But last week Composer Honegger was struck by the thought that his "train symphony," Pacific 231, only interprets a locomotive from the...
Next day, since he chanced to be in London, Composer Honegger arranged with indulgent Britons to pilot a locomotive for some 20 miles. He returned from the adventure well nigh ecstatic, plunged at once into a symphonic composition which will take romantic music-lovers out of themselves and into a...
Last week, Conductor Koussevitzky again startled. He accepted for performance next month by his orchestra, "Flivver 10,000,000," subtitled "A Joyous Epic." The opening prologue of this ultramodern symphonic cycle by Frederic S. Converse is "Dawn in Detroit." Of the life of a Ford, Composer Converse then writes, of...
† Mr. Carillo, able Mexican composer of ultra-modern music, first presented his system through the League of Composers at the Town Hall, Manhattan, March 13, 1926. Last week's performance, was the first time his work has been actively endorsed by a leading Symphony Orchestra, was the first...
The Story of romanticism in European music, of solo piano concerts, of pianists who exploit brilliant personalities for their art's sake, begins with the father-in-law and in-opera of Richard Wagner, the inventor of the symphonic poem, the demon-angel of European music for 60 years, Franz...