Word: symphonicment
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If his mosaic construction, his occasional savagery, his new instrumental groupings seemed shocking in the early 1890, they were already conventional in the 1920s to ears becoming domesticated to the wild rhythms of Igor Stravinsky or the pulverized harmonies of the atonalists. About Stravinsky and his experiments, Sibelius remained steadfastly...
But there was another, less roast-beefy side to Elgar ("I must go out and buy some strychnine," he said in a moment of self-criticism), and from that side came his best music-The Dream of Gerontius, Enigma Variations, the Falstaff symphonic poem, his two symphonies. Such pieces have...
Despite his illness, announced the festival committee, the concerts will be held as scheduled, but symphonic and chamber music will be substituted for the solo pieces Casals was to have played. From all over the world telegrams of sympathy poured in. Pianist Rudolf Serkin called on his fellow artists to...
¶ Alexander Arutiunian, 36, Armenian-born writer whose 1948 cantata about the Homeland won a Stalin Prize. ¶ Otar Taktakishvili, 32, former student at the Tiflis Conservatory and twice a Stalin Prizewinner (for his First Symphony, in 1949, and Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, in 1952). ¶ Veli Mukhatov, 40...
On Tuesday's opening program David Gross '60 will perform as the feature work the first movement from Beethoven's Sonata in F Minor, Opus 57, the Apassionata. Other words will be: Bach, Prelude and Fugue in F minor; Brahms, Intermezzo in E, Opus 118 # 2. Landon Young '58 of...