Word: symphonicment
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From a poem. by the Rev. George Crabbe, a 19th-Century English parson-poet, Librettist Montagu Slater had fashioned a psychopathic case history of a sadistic Suffolk fisherman. The first scene is an inquest into the murder of Peter Grimes's boy apprentice. Peter Grimes is exonerated, but the...
Respighi: The Pines of Rome (The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Best recording yet of the clattery symphonic poem. Performance: excellent.
Symphonic Showman. Last week Cugat, who is now a paunchy 46, signed a contract to play an eight-week symphonic concert tour of 50 U.S. cities for $5,000 a night. Top attraction at each concert will be Cugat's own symphonic Latin Suite in three movements (Afro-Cuban...
In Milan, 79-year-old Arturo Toscanini, Wagnerian and symphonic conductor and renowned antiFascist, reacted to the news by canceling a benefit concert he was scheduled to give this week in Paris. Later he canceled a London engagement, offered to reimburse the Music, Art and Drama Society for its losses...
Harvard veterans seeking entertainment which will not place undue strain on their limited budgets have found an answer to their problem in the Esplanade Concerts given in the Hatch Memorial Shell, Boston. The summer series opened last Tuesday evening before a crowd of 20,000 which transformed the usually serene...