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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...
...three-day "Symposium on Music Criticism" moved well past the half-way mark with its two meetings yesterday, as the morning's trio of speeches brought up specific problems in music and led to a brisk discussion session in the afternoon...
...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...
Featuring today's half of the symposium are talks by Virgil Thomson and Olga Samaroff at 10:30 o'clock in Sanders Theatre and a cheral concert at 6:30 o'clock this evening in Memorial Church...
...task of commenting on the music commissioned for the Harvard Symposium's first concert seems a rather precarious one after Roger Sessions' afternoon address laying down his premises as to "The Scope of Musical Criticism...