Word: symphonists
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Great, retired Symphonist Karl Muck, wartime conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who was locked up as an enemy alien during World War I, on his 80th birthday in Berlin received from Adolf Hitler the Plaque of the German Eagle...
...prejudices will give a jolt or two to dyed-in-tradition music-lovers. For them Chopin is "the most truly original of all composers"; bob-haired, ecclesiastic Liszt "the most tremendous musical failure of the 19th Century." Biggest jolt: a cool reference to sentimental Melodist Tschaikowsky as "the greatest symphonist of the 19th Century-after Beethoven." Of such critical jabs, close-collaborating Authors Brockway & Weinstock say simply: "If they start a controversy . . . so much the better. We think the future will bear them...
...fame of Brahms as a symphonist has some what eclipsed his accomplishments as a choral composer, but the Requiem is firmly established as one of the few choral works which will receive regular and repeated performances for many years to come...
...village of Abbott's Bromley, dancers from London's Communist Unity Theatre, Negro Baritone Paul Robeson, and 100 English veterans of the Spanish Loyalist army. Its music was composed by a bombing squad of British composers, headed by London's famed and respected 200-lb. Symphonist Ralph Vaughan Williams...
...symphonies of Mozart, who wrote his first when he was eight, and died at an age (34) when the average composer is just beginning to hit his stride. But the big symphonies of the German romantic period usually came comparatively late in their composers' lives. Great epic Symphonist Beethoven, who wrote nine, waited until 30 to write his first one; Symphonist Brahms waited until he was 43; Symphonist Bruckner until...