Word: symphonicment
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Our prelapsarian receptivity was precious because it removed us from the somewhat distasteful contemporary situation with Mahler. America, in her inimitable megalomania, most recently exhibited for the world's amusement when man's (Americans) first sentence on the moon included the inevitable word "giant," fancies se as rediscovered Mahler, where...
MAHLER comprehended life and therefore his music as spiritual dramaturgy. His genius resides in the incorporation of every conceivable human mood and impulse, short of mordancy, into an art of the highest technical integrity. Anguish and exultation resonate with equal energy throughout his entire symphonic cycle. His dramatic frescoes are...
AIX-EN-PROVENCE (through July 31). The Orchestre de Paris, under the direction of Herbert von Karajan, Karl Miinchinger and others, will be in residence at this spa 17 miles north of Marseille. A wide spectrum of traditional and 20th century repertory will be offered in symphonic and chamber music...
Luckily for Yamash'ta and his fellow kitchen chefs, there is more creative music around for the forgotten men of the orchestra than ever before. Among composers of the past, Hector Berlioz was perhaps the first to pay much attention to the symphonic battery of drums. Later on, Stravinsky...
The New York Philharmonic would have liked Leonard Bernstein to stay on forever as its music director. But since he announced 21 years ago that he would quit to devote more time to composing, the orchestra has been pondering a successor, well aware that Lennie would be a tough act...