Word: yeibichai
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...crash-bang-and-meander school of modernism, with the violins chasing random single notes in sequence while the cello stuttered insistently, as if trying to interrupt. The whole was something less than the sum of its brilliant parts. Pleasant surprises of the evening were Frederick Jacobi's Yeibichai: Variations for Orchestra on an American Indian Theme, which employed some interestingly experimental orchestral effects, and Lamar Stringfield's Symphonic Ballad, "The Legend of John Henry," which used the traditional folk song ("John Henry said to his captain, 'A man ain't nothing...
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