Word: symphonicment
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And it is not sufficient. Saturday night's performance of the "Eroica," the Overture Number Three to Leonora, and Copland's suite for ballet, Appalachian Spring, showed both the prime virtues and the great defects of the performances at Symphony Hall. Aside from the magnificent discipline and precision of the...
To the Americans, C'est Fini sounded like a combination of Lili Marlene and I'll Never Smile Again. When they began to ask for it in every bar in southern France, the words were translated to English, the title was changed to Symphonic. By last week it...
¶The Philharmonic, going it alone, catches the playful bustle of An American in Paris (Columbia, 4 sides). ¶Porgy and Bess, fancied up in a symphonic version by Fritz Reiner and the Pittsburgh Symphony (Columbia, 6 sides), and more glossily by Fabien Sevitzky and the Indianapolis Symphony (Victor, 6...
The Germans claimed they buzz-bombed Manchester last week (see FOREIGN NEWS), but they didn't hit John Barbirolli. Conductor Barbirolli and Manchester's famed Halle Orchestra had pulled a surprise maneuver. Despite military hell and the English Channel's high water, they were touring Belgium right...
"Having been invited many times . . . to realize over there, under my own conducting, some concerts with my symphonic works, I am now organizing the respective plan. . . ." In other, less fancy words: Latin America's most famous composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos, would like to visit Los Angeles and conduct the...