-
first pla**** on
radio station WOR, New York, by Al
Trace and his
Silly Symphonists. It made the pop
charts several times, with a
version by the
Merry Macs...
- an
octave below, and
perhaps also a b****oon).
Occasionally the
early symphonists even
dispensed with the
viola part, thus
creating three-part symphonies...
- of the era
known as the
Golden Age of Radio. Al
Trace and His
Silly Symphonists was one of
several comedy ensembles in the
early 1940s.
Others included...
- one another. This
challenge was why the
Romantics "were
never natural symphonists". All a
composer like
Tchaikovsky could do with them was to essentially...
-
opera music in
symphonic works,
which helped him
continue his
career as a
symphonist during this
hectic decade. In 1779, an
important change in Haydn's contract...
-
Teutonic influences.
Vaughan Williams is
among the best-known
British symphonists,
noted for his very wide
range of moods, from
stormy and imp****ioned...
- said with
truth that
Vaughan Williams,
Sibelius and
Prokofieff are the
symphonists of this century". Indeed,
Sibelius exerted considerable influence on...
-
repertory was wide, and it was in his
interpretations of the
German symphonists Beethoven and
Brahms that he was
particularly renowned and influential...
-
Christian Cannabich, and it had a very
direct influence on many
major symphonists of the time,
including Joseph Haydn and
Leopold Hofmann. (Cannabich,...
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differentiates between "song" and "song-cycle"; he also
disparages the term "song-
symphonist",
which he
calls "a
horrid cliché that
belongs to the
dubious history...
