Word: melodye
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The labor news was serious. Melody, the Washington, D.C. mockingbird who for years has shown up to sit on a lamppost and chirp with the National Symphony Orchestra at Washington's Water Gate concerts, was at it again. Melody, says the Symphony's manager, prefers Mozart and Schubert...
In five years he had turned out the two works on which his fame still rests: Le Roi David and Pacific 231, a huffing, chuffing orchestral description of a locomotive getting under way. In his oratorio-like Le Roi David he perfected his own trick of plaiting two huge, serpentine...
Menotti: Sebastian Ballet Suite (Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). Delightful, polished, contemporary ballet music, with plenty of Puccini-like melody. Performance: excellent.
There were 31 musicians on the stand, and in everybody's mind was the memory of a 32nd: Trombonist Glenn Miller, their former leader, who was killed 2½ years ago in a plane crash over the English Channel. The band still carried around Miller's custom-made...
Malipiero's "La Terra," also in Latin, is Virgil in his loveliest pastoral vein and the Venetian master at his sweetest. All is suave and dreamy, with constant rhythmic complexities and a wealth of melody and grace that suggest the careless abundance of nature itself. Perhaps it is over-dreamy...