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The buildup had been Russian in its immensity, and in the heat of the moment (the air waves carrying the symphony to listeners passed through an average of 90°) Manhattan's critics were inclined to do little tearing down. But most of them were cautious. They agreed that...
The Symphony. Written for a mammoth orchestra, Shostakovich's Seventh, though it is no blatant battle piece, is a musical interpretation of Russia at war. In the strict sense, it is less a symphony than a symphonic suite. Like a great wounded snake, dragging its slow length, it uncoils...
In Washington, Tchaikovsky's turbulent Fourth Symphony surged across the water from a WPA-built barge moored near the Potomac River's edge, while 10,000 Washingtonians sat on benches, sprawled on the grass, lolled in canoes on the river. Hans Kindler's National Symphony had begun...
Now successor to John Philip Sousa as top U.S. bandmaster, Goldman finds the world far less attuned to blown music than in Sousa's heyday. The broadcast subtleties of symphonic music and of modern jazz arrangements have eclipsed the concert band. But Conductor Goldman's faith is not...
SYMPHONIC, ETC.