Word: symphonist
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Buffeted by Storms. Mozart wrote Idomeneo when he was 24. He was already a mature and original symphonist, but as an opera composer he was still leaning on the past. He fashioned Idomeneo after the Alceste and Iphigenie en Aulide of Gluck, the grandfather of grand opera. Gluck had tried to pump some life into the stodgy, formalized opera seria which had degenerated into stiff, static pieces in which singers could show off their voices...
Virus pneumonia put Cincinnati symphonist Eugene Goossens in hospital in Dubuque, Iowa...
...dogs at a Carnegie Hall pop concert. Next month, Menotti will sail for Europe to visit Milan, his home town, and do research in Paris for a ballet about Marcel Proust. He lives at Mt. Kisco, N.Y. in a glistening glass and wood house called "Capricorn," with Symphonist Samuel Barber, an aspiring poet named Robert Horan, and a female cocker spaniel. The cocker, Menotti says, "is very musical and neurotic like all of us in the house." The dog has a preference for the works of Ravel and Debussy...
Born. To Benny Goodman, 36, swing-man-symphonist, and Alice Hammond Duckworth, 40, great-great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt: their second child, a girl; in Manhattan. Name: Benjie ("after her father"). Weight...
...rafters of Manhattan's $20,000,000-endowed Juilliard School of Music were still shaking. The new president had just taken over-35-year-old William Schuman, prolific young symphonist whose latest performed composition was a score for the Ballet Theatre's Freudian ballet, Undertow, which is all about a sex murder. Said Schuman of his new job at Juilliard: "It's like Westbrook Pegler taking over PM." Actually it was more like a New Republic editor taking over the Saturday Evening Post...