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...assembled a band that has great swing soloists--topnotchers all--but more important, when they play ensemble work, it is music of a kind that is played nowhere else in this country. Many critics believe it to be a cross between contemporary classical works and the pure swing idiom...
...century, especially the colorists of Russia and France, exploited the brilliant melodies and rhythms of Spanish popular song. The number of French and Russian compositions at the end of the last century with titles like Spanish Caprice, Spanish Symphony, Espana, and Iberia demonstrates how potent an influence the Spanish idiom had become...
...stimulated by foreign recognition of their musical possibilities, Spaniards, began to apply themselves with greater success to serious composition. By combining characteristics of their national folk song with a basic European idiom the modern Spanish school has developed a brilliant style full of highly decorated melodies and dancelike rhythms. . . Selections from Iberia by Albeniz are the only familiar pieces from the modern group, which includes works by Rodriguo, and Rodolpho and Ernesto Halffter...
Because of his tremendous effect on the development of twentieth century music a concert of his works is not only a demonstration of different aspects of Strawinsky's art, but also a showing of many ideas which have become basic characteristics of the contemporary musical idiom. Strawinsky himself will conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra in just such a program on Friday and Saturday when they will play The Card Game ballet music, the Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra, the suite from Petrouchka, and the Symphony of Psalms...
...peoples. The process is a sort of musical "survival of the fittest." Our jazz is not different in this respect from the folk-music of other peoples, and the qualities which have made it a great popular art form will assure it a lasting place in the musical idiom...