The Press: Rugby

Arthur Honegger, French composer famed throughout the U. S. for his sound depiction of a giant cross-country engine, Pacific 231, announced last week in Paris that his next symphony will be called Rugby. Into music he will put the scrimmaging of a football match, trying "to express the pulsating action, reaction, rhythm and color that animates the great contest of muscles, brawn and strategic skill."

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