Word: symphonicment
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Army. But the program was solid, symphonic fare, and as it progressed, the performance compared favorably with good European orchestras. When it was over the audience applauded long and loud.
Secure in his top rank among contemporary U.S. composers of symphonic music, Aaron Copland last week took the plunge into opera. Shy about his venture, Veteran (53) Composer Copland first thought of launching The Tender Land (a story of the rural Midwest) far from the calloused ears of Manhattan critics...
With eleven cash prizes for musical composition to his credit, e.g., two Rosenwald fellowships, two fellowships at the American Academy in Rome. 37-year-old Negro Composer Ulysses Kay is among the most steadily rewarded of contemporary U.S. composers. Last week he came in for a special honor: he was...
Walking My Baby Back Home (Universal) is a musical with its brains in its feet. The feet, young Donald O'Connor's, are clever enough to weave their way through any reasonably foolish script. But in this picture, Dancer O'Connor is tangled in at least a...
D'lndy: Istar (Westminster Symphony of London conducted by Anatole Fistoulari; M-G-M). A symphonic striptease, this romantic score tells the story of a Babylonian maiden's visit to the house of death. As she passes each of its! successive gates, she is stripped of a piece...