If any of you were among the audience of 1,500 music-lovers at the annual Spartanburg, South Carolina, Music Festival on Friday, April 30, or, later, tuned in radio station WSPA at the proper time, you witnessed or heard a novel event in TIME'S history: the first performance, by a symphony orchestra and chorus of 70 voices, of Half Moon Mountain, a modern American ballad inspired by a story in TIME.
We have known about Half Moon Mountain almost since its inception. About a year ago Composer-Pianist Edwin Otto Gerschefski, dean of music at Spartanburg's Converse College, wrote us about his plan. He...
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