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...years, U.S. composers have crossed the Atlantic to study with austere Nadia Boulanger at Fontainebleau's American Conservatory. Among them: Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson. Another Boulanger alumnus, Marc Blitzstein, was recently commissioned by Boston's Serge Koussevitzky to write an opera. Last week Teacher Boulanger made news in her own way-quietly...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Marc Blitzstein's Airborne Symphony makes its network debut, Leonard Bernstein conducting...
...were the kind of stuff that Norman Corwin writes-sometimes graphic, frequently inflated. In the background, Leonard Bernstein's New York City Symphony played music that had more than a touch of Shostakovich. It was the première of The Airborne Symphony, Marc (The Cradle Will Rock) Blitzstein's 50-minute history of aviation for orchestra, chorus, speaker and soloists...
...wrote The Airborne in London in 1943, on assignment from the Eighth Air Force. When it was over, Composer Blitzstein jumped to the stage and was embraced by Mr. Welles. The audience, in Manhattan's municipally owned City Center last week, gave it what Manhattan music critics nervously (and somewhat grudgingly) referred to as an ovation. Consensus of the critics: as a symphony, The Airborne hardly got off the ground...
...taken from the files of the U.S. Senate Civil Liberties Committee. Producers Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand have dramatized them in sequences bound together by straight documentary interludes, highlighted them with perhaps the finest spoken commentary (Paul Robeson) ever recorded on celluloid and an effective musical score (Marc Blitzstein) accompanying the Robeson songs. The result, better as episodes than as a whole movie, is a shocking, stinging picture whose realism could never have been achieved in soft-stepping Hollywood...