Word: symphonicment
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Eighteen indispensable men got ready last week for another winter's work. They were the contrabassoonists of the eighteen big U.S. symphony orchestras. Without them, the U.S. symphonic season could not get off to a start. Though a contra-bassoonist without a symphony orchestra may be the lowest down...
But symphonic composers, from Handel to Richard Strauss, have rated the contrabassoon highly, using it to fill in the substructures of massive harmonies. In compositions like Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Paul Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice, it is even given short, snorting solos. These passages are practiced...
Still in jail was Lorraine-born Composer Florent Schmitt, whose symphonic and chamber music scores were among the most massive if not the most remarkable produced in prewar France. Schmitt had an enthusiastic collaborationist record.
Artur Rodzinski, genial, brush-headed conductor of the New York Philharmonic promised R.A.F. Wing Commander John Wooldridge last April one performance of Wooldridge's symphonic poem "Constellations" for every five German planes he shot down. Last week 33-year-old Wooldridge bagged his fifth, and the R.A.F. promised him...
Meanwhile the production of classical symphonic records continues in a slow but steady trickle. The latest releases: Morton Gould: Latin American Symphonette (Rochester Philharmonic, Jose Iturbi conducting; Victor; 6 sides). A skillfully concocted olla podrida of Latin American nightclub idioms sizzling in Stravinskian sauce with occasional Straussian dumplings. Performance: excellent...