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Thus speaks Igor Strawinsky in his autobiography, about his opera-oratorio, "Oedipus Rex". Even a casual hearing confirms the fact that for his choral idiom Strawinsky has turned back to the principles of the classical style. Present-day choral composers, Vaughan-Williams and Delius among them, have studied how words sound, and in their music have concentrated on the flow and meaning of language. Strawinsky in "Oedipus" uses the choral technique of the eighteenth century masters. Employing the text purely as musical material, he achieves his effects by distorting the words, changing their pronunciation, and shifting accents, without regard...
...feminine lead in Bethel Merriday is an earnest small girl from a middle-class New England household who takes college theatrics seriously, gets her pa to shell out $425 for ten weeks of apprenticeship at an arty summer theatre. The old Lewis ear for idiom goes to work on airy Director Roscoe Valentine ("So beautifully fallible!"); the old Lewis Saturday Evening Post touch appears in godlike, athletic Andy Deacon, Yale and Newport, amateur actor and angel to the company. Bethel Merriday learns the talk, the tricks, the hard-working realities of acting. She would agree with her creator that...
...Hollywood studies with a thirty-one piece band. In addition to the usual six brass, four sax, four rhythm, and Shaw, they added eight violins, three violas, two cellos, flute, oboe, bass clarinet and French horn. Victor says, "Despite the full combination, Shaw will remain (sie ! ! !) in the swing idiom. With the extra musicians, he plans to enhance his style with tone colors and effects, heretofore unattained...
Strong for verisimilitude, Joanne interviewed the local judge to learn how judges talk, the local grocer to learn the idiom of grocers. By autumn of 1939 she had put all the pieces of paper together, laboriously typed out (by hunt and peck) their 15,000 words...
...search of early U. S. music. No. 1 U. S. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick hit upon James Hewitt's The Battle of Trenton. Last week, on a broadcast of U. S. music over WNYC, Harpsichordist Kirkpatrick played it. Though written for the most part in the measured, tinkling idiom of 18th-Century English salon music, The Battle of Trenton still preserved a smoldering crash and rumble reminiscent of the early works of Ludwig van Beethoven. Modern listeners found James Hewitt's ideas as quaint as a periwig, but agreed that his music was well worth unearthing...