Word: creston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down to 35 members, dressed in smart gabardine battle-jacket uniforms (they call them "costumes" now), de Paur's Infantry Chorus whisked expertly through a diverse program from 16th Century Palestrina to U.S. contemporary Composer Paul Creston, who has arranged works especially for them. Critics gave them good marks for diction, blending of voices and clarity of line, and for a welcome versatility of material which the Don Cossack choruses lack. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson: "[This choir] could, without half trying, raise the whole level of our current taste in semi-popular music...
...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Dvorak's Carnaval Overture, Paul Creston's Threnody, Jacques Ibert's Divertissement, finale of Haydn's Symphony No. 88. Conductor: Alfred Wallenstein...
Like most farm wives, talkative, plumpish Amy Kelsey has chores aplenty. Near British Columbia's Creston (pop. 1,153) she helps her husband tend their ten-acre fruit farm, keep their unpainted frame house pin-neat, still finds time to collect stamps, grow prize wheat and corn. Thirty-five years in the Canadian West have greyed her hair but never dimmed her ardor for blue-ribbon awards. Since 1934, the wheat and corn she planted between the trees in her husband's apple orchards have won 40 prizes in U.S. and Canadian shows...
Down & Out. In Creston, Iowa, carnival magician Thomas Mays made a quarter disappear all right, then underwent an operation to have it removed from his stomach...
Opening the concert at 8 o'clock with Kabelevsky's Overture to "Coles Breugnon," Kostelanetz will lead the orchestra in "Frontiers," by Creston, and in Stravinsky's Suite from the ballet "L'Oiseau de Feu." After an intermission the program will conclude with Cesar Franck's "Symphony in D Minor...