Word: symphonicment
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¶ A 20-minute symphonic poem by Chicago-born Pulitzer Prizewinning Composer Ernst Bacon, 58, with narration based on Paul Horgan's Pulitzer Prizewinning book Great River: The Rio Grande. Commissioned two years ago by the Dallas Symphony and performed under Walter Hendl, Rio Grande proved to be a...
¶ An 18-minute, four-part symphonic jazz suite by veteran Jazzman Lionel Hampton, 41, entitled King David and premiered under Dimitri Mitropoulos in Manhattan's Town Hall. Inspired and flavored by Hampton's recent tours of Israel ("I visited King David's tomb, and a chant...
Other leaders: ABC-Paramount, Cricket. Peter Pan. The basic types of children's records-called "kidisks" by Billboard: ¶ Stories with music, usually a familiar fairy tale with its teeth pulled: e.g., the wolf doesn't eat Little Red Riding Hood; Snow White's stepmother sends her...
Behind the Met's show of 50 masterpieces, plus a one-quarter scale replica of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, was a unique illuminated color process worked out by LIFE Magazine. Color transparencies of the masterworks were blown up on strips of 40-in.-wide film to the...
To jazzmen used to going "way out" on free-swinging improvisations, much of modern symphonic music has long seemed both sterile and inhibited. Composer Howard Brubeck, a college music teacher and brother of Pianist Dave Brubeck, wrote his Dialogues in an effort to un-inhibit things by wedding improvisation with...