Word: symphonicment
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It costs $100 an hour in maintainance, transmission, and power costs to run the station. When the endowment series failed, the new management was obliged to turn in the opposite direction and put on more and cheaper commercials. Two hours a day were reserved for symphonic works, which permitted an...
The program for a college orchestra always presents a problem that is rarely solved better than it was Sunday night. It is ridiculous for students to play the familiar symphonic items that everyone has heard performed by experts. But in the search for rare works college orchestras usually come up...
The Orchestra plans for the spring include a concert in Cambridge under its conductor Malcolm H. Holmes '28, and readings of various familiar symphonic works it still also renew its prewar tradition of a spring vacation four, visiting several women's colleges in Virginia.
When the first performance of Cesar Franck's Symphony in D Minor was given in Paris in 1889, critics were almost unanimously indignant. Sniffed one of them: "Why play this symphony here? Who is this M. Franck? A professor of Harmonium, I believe." Cesar Franck was then 67, an...
Songwriter Hoagy (Stardust) Carmichael was not sure he was quite up to the job. "I know my limitations . . . I'm not a student of music." But on the other hand, he did have an idea, and he was a native Indianian, and that was more than most of the...