Word: dallapiccola
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louisville plan is financially in the red, it is musically well in the black. Forty-six new works have been introduced and several have already been performed elsewhere. A few were standouts, e.g., Luigi Dallapiccola's haunting, emotional Variations for Orchestra, Henry Cowell's gentle Symphony No. 11, Carlos Surinach's vivid Sinfonietta Flamenca. The overall quality was higher than critics dared hope...
...school blew in on the same wind that unroofed the old Habsburg Empire: Kafka grew up in Habsburg Prague; Alban Berg, who wrote the gloomy Wozzeck, was a Viennese; Bela Bartok, whose Bluebeard's Castle almost makes a sympathetic character out of Bluebeard, was a Hungarian; even Luigi Dallapiccola, whose opera, The Prisoner (TIME, May 29, 1950), gives him front rank in the new school, grew up in Austrian Istria...
...Summer Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). The first U.S. performance of Luigi Dallapiccola's Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra...
Before the week was out, 4OO-odd young musicians of the Berkshire Music Center, which shares the well-clipped lawns of Tanglewood with the festival, had also wound up their six-week summer session -studying composition (with Aaron Copland, Luigi Dallapiccola), conducting (with Bernstein), and performance (with members of the orchestra). Their big show: Mozart's opera, La Clemenza di Tito, resurrected, rendered into English (and renamed Titus), produced and conducted by the New England Opera Company's Director Boris Goldovsky...
Uphill Fight. I.S.C.M. did that, and more. In its annual festivals, it helped spread the news (and the international reputations) of such men as Twelve-Ton-ists Arnold Schoenberg, Anton von Webern and Alban Berg, France's Darius Milbaud and Olivier Messiaen, Italy's Luigi Dallapiccola, the U.S.'s Roger Sessions and Aaron Copland...