Word: symphonist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...composed when he was 27, and his Thirteenth ("Jupiter"), which seems to reflect his happiness with his new job as musicmaker at the Esterhazys, a job he held for 30 years. Also of particular interest: No. 48 ("Maria Theresa"), which heralds the arrival, in the distance, of the mature symphonist. Of his later and more familiar works, RCA Victor offers a superbly warm performance of No. 93 (the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Guido Cantelli conducting; 6 sides). Recording, on 45 r.p.m.: excellent. London FFRR'S release of No. 101, "The Clock" (L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet...
...rambling, two-story Colorado Springs house, whose living-room windows frame Pikes Peak, Composer Harris, now 50, was having an unusual silent streak. Even for him, the country's most prolific symphonist, and one of the most frequently heard, a first performance in St. Patrick's would have been something to boast about. Said he stubbornly: "The Mass [is] for the Catholic people of the United States...
Buffeted by Storms. Mozart wrote Idomeneo when he was 24. He was already a mature and original symphonist, but as an opera composer he was still leaning on the past. He fashioned Idomeneo after the Alceste and Iphigenie en Aulide of Gluck, the grandfather of grand opera. Gluck had tried to pump some life into the stodgy, formalized opera seria which had degenerated into stiff, static pieces in which singers could show off their voices...
Virus pneumonia put Cincinnati symphonist Eugene Goossens in hospital in Dubuque, Iowa...
...dogs at a Carnegie Hall pop concert. Next month, Menotti will sail for Europe to visit Milan, his home town, and do research in Paris for a ballet about Marcel Proust. He lives at Mt. Kisco, N.Y. in a glistening glass and wood house called "Capricorn," with Symphonist Samuel Barber, an aspiring poet named Robert Horan, and a female cocker spaniel. The cocker, Menotti says, "is very musical and neurotic like all of us in the house." The dog has a preference for the works of Ravel and Debussy...