Word: symphonicment
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To a few captious folk this outlay of Gershwin revealed a weakness of structure, a lack of variety. But most of the Stadiumgoers were well content to take Gershwin's agile, rhythmic music on its own terms. They had heard before The Rhapsody in Blue, the sly American in Paris...
Igloo (Universal) is the latest of many epics showing the prolonged death-grip of Man and remorseless Nature. Nanook of the North did it in 1922. Grass did it in 1925 for the nomads of central Asia, The Silent Enemy for the Amerindian in 1930. Grass was a symphonic study...
While long-established orchestras were striving last week to balance their next season's budget (see above), in North Carolina a novel symphonic venture was having its start. North Carolinians wanted an orchestra of their own. No single city was affluent enough to support a full-fledged one alone...
The program follows in full: March, "Queen of Sheba", Gounod; "Dence Macabre, Symphonic Poem", Saint-Saens; Suite from "Carmen", Bizet; "Facade", Walton; Piano Concerto No. 1, in F sharp minor, First Movement, Rachmaninoff; "California", Tone Poem, Converse; Overture to "Oberon", Weber; Masquerade, "An American Rhapsody", McKinley; "By the Beautiful Blue...
Radio gave U. S. music an added puff last week. Fortnight ago five unidentified symphonic compositions (weeded out from 573) were played over the National Broadcasting chain, listened to by 150 judges in all parts of the country who telegraphed their votes back to N. B. C. in Manhattan. Week...