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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A small brass and wind ensemble (augmented by a lone bass viol) had far greater problems to overcome in Varese's Octandre, composed in 1924. One of the major difficulties of this score is that it depends for its effect almost entirely on subtle variations of volume and orchestration for...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Christmas Concert | 12/17/1959 | See Source »

Just as the Roman Catholic Bishops of the United States have cost the Senator votes and embarrassment by the out-of-place birth control issue, so have those who would seem to be his greatest backers cost Kennedy by their silence a chance for a commanding lead.

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Catholicism and Kennedy | 12/17/1959 | See Source »

It was disappointing to see Sanders only half full for the H.R.O.'s Christmas concert of modern music. If the poor attendance was in main due to the fact that the program consisted entirely of works composed in this century, then this speaks ill for Harvard's intelligentsia. Certainly the...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Christmas Concert | 12/17/1959 | See Source »

The four songs of Mr. Cutler, who is now a graduate student of composition at Brandeis, were finished two years ago and sound a bit adolescent, a bit melodramatic. They center around the ambitious subject of death and, from their excessive use of tremolos in the strings punctuated by over...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Christmas Concert | 12/17/1959 | See Source »

The second half of the program was devoted to Manuel De Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain with Luise Vosgerchian as piano soloist. This luminous work, which uses the piano more as a part of the orchestra than does a formal concerto, combines evocations of Spain and its...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Christmas Concert | 12/17/1959 | See Source »

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