Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closing feature of the three day symposium of music criticism, Martha Graham and her dance company staged two ballets, "Dark Meadow," with music by Carlos Chavez, and "Night Journey," with music by William Schuman, Saturday evening at the Cambridge High and Latin School. Both works were commissioned for Miss Graham, who was the author of their choreography, by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in the Library of Congress. "Dark Meadow" had been presented before, but Saturday night's audience was the first to witness "Night Journey...
Probably the first major result of the Symposium's success was the announcement Saturday that the University Press will publish all Symposium speeches in a volume to be ready in the fall...
...popular as well as a professional success, last week's three-day "Symposium on Music Criticism" was marked by the high level of interest apparent at all the speaking sessions as well as at the three sell-out concerts...
...forthcoming publication of this book and the wide coverage the Symposium has already received in the music columns of major newspapers indicate that it may exert a strong influence on thinking in the music world. Exactly how it will affect actual criticism cannot be foretold, but as the meetings progressed it became increasingly evident that the discussions were taking place on two levels...
...second concert of the Harvard Symposium on Music Criticism offered last night in the Memorial Church a program of three lengthy choral works commissioned for the occasion. These were, in the order of their performance: a "Last Judgement" by Paul Hindemith; a set of excerpts from Virgil's "Georgies", set to music under the title of "La Terra" by Gian-Francesco Malipiero; and the Genesis account of creation, entitled by its composer, Aaron Copland, "In the Beginning." All three were performed to a miraculous perfection by New York's Collegiate Chorale, under the direction of Robert Shaw. Nell Tangeman sang...