Word: symphonist
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Bruckner: Quintet (Koechert Quartet; Decca). A mellow, untroubled piece in pastoral mood, the only chamber work that Symphonist Bruckner ever wrote...
Britain's Ralph Vaughan Williams is a composer who bides his time. Primarily famed as a symphonist (he has composed six symphonies), he waited until he was 51 to write his first ballet score (Old King Cole); at 69 he composed his first film score (49th Parallel). Last week, at 78, the famed old doyen of English composers finally made his first bow in Covent Garden with an opera...
Episcopal Sewanee and Nashville's Peabody College were having their first Cumberland Forest Festival: a kind of Tanglewood of the South, directed by lean, sandy, U.S. Symphonist Roy Harris. The festival highlight: a mid-century survey of 20th Century music...
...composed when he was 27, and his Thirteenth ("Jupiter"), which seems to reflect his happiness with his new job as musicmaker at the Esterhazys, a job he held for 30 years. Also of particular interest: No. 48 ("Maria Theresa"), which heralds the arrival, in the distance, of the mature symphonist. Of his later and more familiar works, RCA Victor offers a superbly warm performance of No. 93 (the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Guido Cantelli conducting; 6 sides). Recording, on 45 r.p.m.: excellent. London FFRR'S release of No. 101, "The Clock" (L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet...
...rambling, two-story Colorado Springs house, whose living-room windows frame Pikes Peak, Composer Harris, now 50, was having an unusual silent streak. Even for him, the country's most prolific symphonist, and one of the most frequently heard, a first performance in St. Patrick's would have been something to boast about. Said he stubbornly: "The Mass [is] for the Catholic people of the United States...