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...concert will open with two selections by Ralph Vaughan Williams, "O Taste and See" and "O Clap Your Hands." The first piece was composed for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Then the chorus will sing the Apparebit Repentina Dies" by Paul Hindemith. It was composed in 1947 for a Symposium on Musical Criticism held at Harvard and was performed then by the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society with the composer conducting...
...French , Nadia Boulanger, received the second Prix de Rome in musical composition for a cantata called 'La .' In the intervening decades, Nadia Boulanger studied, worked, and . And in spite of her preference for anonymity, she achieved the fame based essentially on excellence as a teacher: with Ernst Bloch Paul Hindemith she shares the of most influential music teacher the century...
...ambition. He wanted to be a composer of operas. He never quite made it, but 50 years later, at 64, Wilder is becoming a handy man-about-the-opera-house: his one-act play The Long Christmas Dinner recently provided the libretto for an opera by Composer Paul Hindemith (TIME, Dec. 29). Now his play The Alcestiad has furnished the Frankfurt Opera with an engaging and unexpected hit of the same name...
...Though it came as no shock to an audience accustomed to Berg and Henze, the score nevertheless surprised and delighted some listeners who had not expected, in the words of one German critic, to find "an American lady of Miss Talma's generation writing music more modern than Hindemith...
Last evening's program by a fine violist, Paul Doktor, and a muddy pianist, Yaltah Menuhin (fille), offered Brahma, Debussy, and Kabalevsky, all for the price of Hindemith. Hindemith's Sonata No. 1 for viola (1920) is what is known in scholarly circles as a review of the literature. It starts with annotated Schubert and proceeds to Brahms, citing from impressionistic Debussy as needed. An extensive quote of the born motive in Brahms' Fourth Symphony provides the theme for a set of variations, wherein Hindemith invokes the style of Kabalevsky's 24 Easy Pieces for Children; and paraphrases...