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Word: tansman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gershwin Melodies -- Miriam Winslow, Foster Fitz-Simons and Eusemble Warrene Bulkeley Jacqueline Magrath June MacLaren Mary Morse *"Little Women" (Theme and Variations) Tchaikovsky "City Faun" (Satirical Dance Morton Gould *Magnificat (Air for the G String) Bach "Caribbee" Milhaud *"Archangel" (Gymnopedio I) Satle "Frail Woman" (Excerpts from "Pour les Enfants") Tansman "Chromo: American Dance" (Harmonica Player from Alley Tunes) Guion *Polonaise Militaire Chopin *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Score Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE POPS | 5/25/1939 | See Source »

...City a pale-faced street crowd jigs automatically to the twangy jazz rhythms of Alexandre Tansman's Transatlantique, an accompaniment which makes Dancer Hans Zuellig seem all the more lonely when he loses his girl to a silk-hatted libertine. For The Prodigal Son, the one ballet to have its U. S. premiere last week, Choreographer Jooss went back to the old Biblical legend, cast himself as the square-bearded patriarch, Elsa Kahl as the mother, muscular Rudolf Pescht as the wandering son. Result was not another Green Table, but a ballet with spots that were powerful, spots that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jooss Start | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...Sonata by Henry Eichheim; a conservative Quintet by John Alden Carpenter; a hard, austere Trio by Roy Harris; a crafty Sextet by Edward Burlingame Hill. Critics preferred the things they had heard before-the earthy string sextet of Bohuslav Martinu, a Czech; the chromatic, well-knit Triptyque of Alexandre Tansman; the Canticum Fratis Soils of Charles Martin Loeffler. Carl Engel, one-time music librarian in Washington, asked Composer Frank Bridge if he considered any of the new works worth $500. Composer Bridge, a dry Briton, answered, "Well, Carl, don't forget the American dollar has been devalued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Reunion in Pittsfield | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...Pops Orchestra, under Arthur Fiedler, will present the following program in Symphony Hall tonight: Military Polonaise Chopin-Glazounov "Midsummer Night's Dream" Overture Mendelssohn "Rosamunde" Entr'acte Schubert "Carmen" Fantasia Bizet Sonatine Transatlantique Tansman "Pavane for a Dead Infanta" Ravel "Nutcrackor" Ballet Suite Tchaikovsky "Show Boat" Selections Kern "Blue Danube" Waltz Strauss Fifth Hungarian Dance Brahms

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE POPS TONIGHT | 6/3/1931 | See Source »

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