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Composer Menotti, who dislikes most modern music ("Where is the melody?"), is a man who crams his own with things to hum. Critics sometimes complain that his music sounds 19th Century and facile. But audiences take it at its own cheerful level, and eat it up.
Spring came to Germany a month late, and in Berlin, rainy and cold, people were singing a sprightly song called Bel Ami, crowding Hitler's favorite show, Melody in the Night (although Miriam Verne, U.S. dancer who caught Hitler's eye, had gone to Munich to play The...
There are no chords (in the Western sense) in Hovhaness' trance-like music. He hates chords. Says he: "It is a European sophistication ... to force melody to submit to the dictatorship of harmony." Hovhaness himself uses ancient Indian ragas, or what he calls "groups of associated notes" and tolas...
The Boston Symphony Orchestra had its troubles. Some Ives compositions are marked "play as you will." In rehearsal, single measures in Ives's symphonic suite Three Places in New England had to be hashed over as many as ten times. One section has a trumpet blaring the melody of...
In the generally lackluster field of serious U.S. composers, Piston rates high. He rates even higher as a teacher. Originally he intended to be a painter, and earned his way through a Boston art school playing the piano, the violin or the saxophone in restaurant bands. Not until he got...