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...Eliot Carter's Tarantella; "Mater, Ades, Florum," precipitated a mass unrest in the graves of La Seala ghosts with its sometimes odd, other times uproarious parody of Latin opera. A tonor with a southern accent high-lighted the successful rendition of a somewhat redundant Gertrude Stein text set to Virgil Thomson music, and the Radcliffe group did nicely with Professor Ballantine's fine blending of music and words in Lake Werna's Water, a work dedicated to Professor Woodworth. A good performance of the Hindemith Choral Fugue ended the program...
Printemps'), . . . The divagations from Stravinsky . . . are not of creative significance." Said the entranced World-Telegram: "He [Messiaen] seems to stand before a shrine, chanting the vision he beholds ... a sort of fluttering commotion spread over the music." Even the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson, who has labored to introduce Messiaen's music to the U.S., was slightly flummoxed. Wrote he: ". . . powerful and original music . . . it is our obligation as listeners ... to get inside [it], since [it does] not easily penetrate our customary concert psychology...
...symphony Romeo et Juliette, and Stokowski chose her to sing the mezzo-soprano solo in the U.S. premiere of Prokofiev's cantata, Alexander Nevsky. Says Jennie: "All of a sudden everything came to me." After her Town Hall debut in 1943, the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson wrote: "Miss Tourel's conquest . . . was . . . without any local parallel since Kirsten Flagstad's debut at the Metropolitan Opera House some nine seasons...
...every time Tagliavini sang a note, and those who wanted to get on with the proceedings. Critics generally found Tagliavini a very good, if not yet great, tenor who used his lyric voice with natural grace and showed a warm feeling for character. Even the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson, usually the Met's sharpest critic, was impressed. He wrote: "He sings high and loud [and] does not gulp or gasp or gargle salt tears. . . . Not in a very long time have we heard tenor singing at once so easy and so adequate. . . . He even at one point...
Critics Olin Downes and Virgil Thomson, British novelist E. M. Forster, and a host of widely-known composors and musicians will plunge into a three-day examination of the principles of music criticism at a large-scale symposium in Cambridge on May 1, 2, and 3, the Department of Music announced recently...