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¶ The two-year-old Orchestra of America, under Conductor Richard Korn at Carnegie Hall, presented a program of the kind of music it was founded to perform-little-known works by American composers. John Knowles Paine's Overture to "As You Like It" and Howard Hanson's...
Lalo: Piano Concerto (Orazio Frugoni, pianist; Vox, mono). French Composer Edouard Lalo (1823-92) is remembered chiefly for his Symphonic Espagnole, but he also wrote a number of operas, chamber works and concertos, of which this is one of the most engaging. Urbane, exotically colored, it sparkles in this recording...
Forest Lawn is a cemetery in which nobody calls a spade a spade. Here the loss of life is known as "leavetaking," a corpse is "the loved one" or "the revered clay," the dead are merely "out of sight." Here 1,500,000 visitors a year wander, secure in the...
For the first time, Harvard will have a summer band. Under the direction of the Summer School and several members of the famous Harvard Band, classical overtures and modern band pieces will be played by the newly-organized Harvard Summer Symphonic Band.
The business of being a composer used to consist mainly in having talent, writing music in a garret, and maybe finding a wealthy patron or two. Nowadays, what with foundation grants, teaching jobs, formal contests and informal cocktail party juries, the business is a lot more complicated. In the A.C.A...