In Manhattan's Radio City last week there was an almost unprecedented musical event−a newly composed U.S. symphony failed to bore its audience. The fact that its composer was also a professional endocrinologist, the author of a book on global strategy, the writer of a syndicated column of advice to the lovelorn, and an honorary member of the
Paris police force, was purely coincidental. George AntheiFs Fourth Symphony, elegantly broadcast by Leopold Stokowski and the N.B.C. Symphony, was easily the loudest and liveliest symphonic composition to turn up in years. It was also testimony...
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