Word: symphonicment
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For their program the Cincinnatians had chosen a massive musical barbecue that only the stoutest and most experienced musical stomachs could digest. Most notable piece de resistance was the huge 8th Symphony of Gustav Mahler, for full chorus, boys' choir, a 102-man symphony orchestra and a choir of...
Salad and dessert were still to come. With Kirsten Flagstad, Marjorie Lawrence, Kerstin Thorborg, Eyvind Laholm and a galaxy of other top-flight singers, Conductor Goossens and his Cincinnati Symphony dished out the whole of Saint-Saens' opera, Samson et Dalila, and Act II of Wagner's Parsifal...
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Adolescents who are yanked off to symphony concerts by culture-maddened parents often conceive a permanent dislike for symphonic music. Symphony boards of directors have long wondered how to make these adolescents take it and like it. Six years ago, Philadelphia's platinum-blond Conductor Leopold Stokowski suggested a...
To his carefully selected audience Conductor Stokowski played full-weight symphonic programs. But he punctuated them with speeches, quips, unprogrammed surprises. He held conversations with them across the footlights, let them wriggle, whistle, cheer, shout, sing, throw paper darts. Once, when they dared him to, he brought down the wrath...