Word: symphonicment
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Gaucherie & Tears. A special memorial symphony was written by Roy Harris (an American composer frequently given to writing symphonic paeans to the U.S.) for performance by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London. The University of Indiana chorus prepared a new oratorio, taken from a Nov. 24, 1963, New York Times...
Critics declared it "a real triumph," "a revolution." Enthused Paris' Le Monde: "Here is the masterpiece of all symphonic choreographies." Said Béjart coolly: "I didn't say anything Beethoven didn't say."
Great City is not great music, even by Copland's own standards; it is a symphonic expansion of his score for the film Something Wild, and it shows a little too much of his tendencies to ward musical reportage. But when Copland had led the orchestra through the explosions...
HINDEMITH: SYMPHONIC METAMORPHOSES ON THEMES BY CARL MARIA VON WEBER (Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting the Berlin Philharmonic; Deutsche Grammophon). Choreographer George Balanchine composed his Metamorphoses to this music: beetlelike creatures eventually turn into birds. Furtwängler, an early champion of Hindemith, calls upon his own powerful magic to...
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERT (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* "Jazz in the Concert Hall," a study of modern symphonic composition incorporating jazz. Leonard Bernstein conducts.