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...Virgil Thomson...
...Thomson, applauded the excerpts from Oedipus Rex and praised the Latin motets as equally outstanding. His advice to music lovers is "that they have not heard the Renaissance motets unless they have heard them sung by the Harvard Glee Club...
...Thomson would have been on stronger ground in citing the absence of contemporary music. Community's 1,000 audiences did not see Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Schoenberg or Britten on any pianist's program. They heard the music of only three contemporary U.S. composers, Morton Gould, Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson himself. Fourteen touring symphony orchestras served soothing programs made up mostly of Tchaikovsky and Wagner. Stravinsky cracked a few programs with his Firebird suite...
...Community's Ward French, simply aims to bring "music to the people. All you can do is find out what they will accept and give it to them . . . Concert associations cannot be musical workshops for experimental music. This job must be done by endowed workshops and specialized audiences." Thomson takes his stand with Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, who insists that if the U.S. is to develop a great musical culture it must hear new music...
...budget be balanced next year? This week the Committee for Economic Development offered a businessman's program to keep the U.S. out of the red and put rearmament on a pay-as-you-go basis. A special tax committee headed by J. Cameron Thomson, president of Minneapolis' Northwest Bancorporation, urged that 1) Congress immediately levy $10 billion in new taxes; 2) the Administration trim at least $3 billion, and possibly $6 billion, from its projected $74 billion budget for fiscal...