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Mar 7 06 9:42 PM
Quote:Its easy to see why Richard Yardumian . . . was so popular with the long-time Philadelphia Orchestra conductor Eugene Ormandy. Ormandys tastes in contemporary music ran toward the big, tonal and frequently bombastic, with heavy doses of Sibelius, Shostakovich, and Prokofiev. Although in his own time, many critics dismissed Ormandy as an unintellectual populist, he was, especially in retrospect, a tireless and faithful supporter of many living composers, championing a number of works that have since entered the standard repertoire.
Quote:The Chorale Prelude had its first performance on April 3, 1959. . . . The work was commissioned as part of a Restful Music Project organized by New Orleans businessman Edward R. Benjamin, who felt that too much contemporary music is unpleasantly loud and dissonant.
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