Word: symphonicment
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Nobody expects jazz musicians to play symphonies. But some high-brow concert audiences still think that symphonic musicians can play jazz. Symphonies are made to be played in concert halls for people who buy tickets to listen to them; the best jazz is made up on the spur of the...
Subtitled Song of a New Race, Composer Still's newest work purports to "point musically to changes wrought in a people through the progressive and transmuting spirit of America." Its four movements are labeled "Yearning," "Sorrow," "Humor" and "Aspiration." Pleasantly sentimental in the moments when it was not jazzy...
George Gershwin, Louis Gruenberg, John Alden Carpenter, most famous of U. S. nationalist composers, have avoided jazz symphonies, contenting themselves with writing rhapsodies, operas, ballets, tone-poems. Loudest pooh-poohing of their efforts has come, not from high-brow critics and musicians, but from swing and hot jazz fans who...
As they got under way last week, conductors throughout the U. S. had their eyes on the National Orchestral Association. As competently as could be expected from a group of young musicians in which the turnover is fast and rehearsals are few, they played the Franck Symphony, and, with Pianist...
She is not so sugary as Shirley, and has more to offer than a round face and big eyes. Her voice, accompanied by the muscular hands, waving mane, and symphonic orchestra of Leopold Stowkowski, is at times actually thrilling, but always tried a little beyond its range. Her acting, when...