Word: symphonicment
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SYMPHONIC, ETC.
Paul Hindemith: Mathis der Maler (Matthias the Painter) (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy; Victor; 6 sides). One of the most sinewy of contemporary scores, by a onetime German Kulturbolschewik now living in the U.S. This symphonic suite, taken from Hindemith's opera about 16th-Century Painter Matthias Gr...
SYMPHONIC, ETC.
Thanks to the war and the loopholes in copyright laws, fancy prices for imported symphonic scores have gone down as much as 50%. Hampton Publications, Inc., a new Manhattan firm, last week had a rush of orders. Hampton had put on the market its first batch of scores, European editions...
Before the war, the great European publishing houses, mostly German, enjoyed a monopoly in symphonic music. U.S. publishers sold German scores for a commission, maintained other profitable contacts with the Germans, never thought it wise to compete with them. But today imports have ceased, and German publishers' plates have...