Word: symphonicment
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He hit Hollywood in 1937, wrote background scores for movies, gained fame chiefly for marrying (and being divorced by) Martha Raye and Judy Garland. On the side, he knocked out some good modern melodies: Holiday for Strings, One Love. The Chicago Symphony played his three full-length symphonic tone poems...
Vincent d'lndy: Istar, Symphonic Variations (San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux conducting; Victor, 3 sides). A strip tease on records. The theme of the score comes only after seven variations have been played, to indicate that the Babylonian maid, Istar, has just thrown off her final veil. Performance...
A superstitious mystic, Mahler brooded over Beethoven and Bruckner, each of whom died after finishing his ninth symphony. When Mahler had written eight, he tried to dodge the unlucky number nine by titling his greatest symphonic work Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth).
Rachmaninoff's Isle of the Dead, Opus 29 (M M 599) is the composer's symphonic interpretation of Arnold Boecklin's painting of the same name. Its almost pathological mourning is excellently portrayed by Dimitri Mitropoulos and the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, whose interpretation of Rachmaninoff is slightly more authentic than...
Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale (DM 1041). This Symphonic Poem, once intended as a Ballet and later as an Opera, is a summation of the composer's experiments in the earlier Firebird, Petrouchka, and Rite of Spring Suites, and displays more than any of them, Stravinsky's amazing command of...