Word: symphonicment
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Kostelanetz' easy-to-take versions of classics and pop tunes soon made him as much of a habit with a section of the U.S. public as Coca-Cola, cigarettes and convertible coupes. To catch his listeners' jaded ears, he mixed the flashiest symphonic devices of conservatory and concert...
The audience one night last week at the Berkshire Festival had a special treat: Eleanor Roosevelt made her musical debut as the narrator in Prokofiev's symphonic fable, Peter and the Wolf. The First Lady emeritus, who had arrived to rehearse only that morning, read her score (solo passages...
He was a mild, shy man with a dilettante's interest in symphonic music and the ballet. He had never been arrested for anything, had never been openly mixed up in left-wing movements. At 39, he was still a bachelor, still lived with his family. Neighbors had considered...
"I Am Going." Success as a composer first came to Berlioz when he was 26, with the huge work for which he is still best known, the Symphonic Fantastique. Franz Liszt, eternal friend of struggling composers, made a piano transcription of it, won more fame for Berlioz by playing it...
Stanger is assistant-conductor of the New England Symphonic Guild Orchestra and is studying conducting with Richard Burgin, concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.