Word: symphonicment
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It was early in Tanglewood's season, and the sounds that came out of the Berkshire woods were more cacophonous than symphonic. In the vast Music Shed, a student orchestra was rehearsing; in a nook of the carefully pruned gardens, a student agonized in solitude with his French horn...
This week, only the roar of an occasional plane and the distant hum of automobiles interfered with the music in Manhattan's Central Park when Hector Berlioz' long-buried Grande Symphonic Funebre et Triomphale had its first U.S. performance.
The Duke toured Europe triumphantly twice, sold over 20 million records, scored a Broadway show (Beggar's Holiday) and was an early invader of now easily invaded Carnegie Hall. Despite all these achievements, he likes to appear indolent. Says he: "My idea of a vacation is just to go...
It was spring all right. Ethel Barrymore, 67, picked the St. Louis Cards and the Boston Red Sox to win pennants again. Actress Jinx Falkenburg was crowned 1947 Radio Sweater Girl by the National Knitted Outerwear Foundation, which picked Nina Foch as Hollywood Queen. The New York Yankees crowned Operatic...
NBC Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Symphonic Piece from Franck's Redemption; Debussy's La Mer; excerpts from Dukas' opera Ariane et Barbe-Bleue. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini.