"This composition is frankly descriptive. I have wanted to capture something of what lies behind the inscrutable Indian visage; capture the whole rainbow, the arc of their savage grief, their martial fire, their craving for sun and space."
Many who heard the world premiere of Lazare Saminsky's Pueblo, a Moon Epic last week agreed that his "orchestral rhapsody'' fell short of the billing. Composer Saminsky had written it for Washington's National Symphony Orchestra, on a special commission from the League of Composers. He divided it into two parts: "Sick of the Snow,...
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