Word: symphonicment
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What had come over Leopold Stokowski? It was as if Actor Maurice Evans had gradually altered his Hamlet to the style of Cinemactor Robert Taylor. At his first appearance with the NBC Symphony last week, fading Stokowski,* master of the symphonic wow technique, dealt confusion to many a musician under...
Three Murders. The murder of Alexander is only the first sinister chord struck in this intensely symphonic book. First of Author West's youthful memories was the assassination of the Empress Elizabeth by the anarchist Luccheni in 1898. "He was an Italian born in Paris of parents forced to...
SYMPHONIC, ETC.
Shock-haired, Polish-American Artur Rodzinski, conducting the Cleveland Orchestra, last week had his packjammed audience humming with him. Everybody knew the music - from Jerome Kern's classic musicomedy, Show Boat. Conductor Rodzinski, who rates the Show Boat music "true" and "great" U.S. song, last summer invited Composer Kern...
Last week the audience, biggest and flashiest in a decade, sat in the middling comfortable seats of flag-draped Carnegie Hall. The 104 orchestra men sat also. The main piece was Beethoven's "Grand Symphony"-whose fateful dot-dot-dot-dash opening now means "V for Victory." A new...