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The San Francisco Symphony, which started 50 years ago as a part-time job for bawdyhouse musicians, has a special appeal for Composer Harris: he got his first real acquaintance with symphonic music while working as an usher for the orchestra, soon decided to become a composer. Now, several hundred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Harris No. 8 | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

Although he thinks "some very good twelve-tone music has been written," he deplores the "sycophants" who insist on it. Some of his other opinions are equally unfashionable: there is no reason, says Harris, why symphonic music should not try to express specific, literal themes. Now that he has finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Harris No. 8 | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

News of the recordings of other pianists--all recent and all recommended--must be telescoped into the following list: Van Cliburn, Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto--exciting only in the final moment (RCA Victor LM/LSC 2562); Robert Casadesus, Schumann's Papillons, Waldscenen and Symphonic Etudes--a delightful record (Columbia ML5642/MS6242); Mr...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Old 'Crimson's' Guide to Christmas Cheer | 12/20/1961 | See Source »

* Recorded music schedule for Matthews Hall Common rooms is: Saturday afternoon, Bach's The Art of the Fugue; Corelli's Concerto Grosso in D major, Opus 6, no. 1; Vivaldi's Trio sonata in D minor, Opus 1, no. 12; and Stradella's Sinfonia in D minor. Sunday, Verdi's...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Notes | 7/13/1961 | See Source »

Sun., May 28 Directions '61 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). An experimental blending of light patterns and symphonic music, based on a scriptural theme, by Composer Ralph Hermann.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: May 26, 1961 | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

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