1953-1958
Abstract The Sinfonia Antartica was played for the first time at a Halle Concert in Manchester on 14 January 1953. At the last minute it was discovered that the spelling ‘Antarctica’ was incorrect in Italian and was amended. The occasion attracted wide publicity and the hall was full. As Richard Cap...
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Oxford University PressOxford
1992
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198163305.003.0010 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52471624/isbn-9780198163305-book-part-10.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract The Sinfonia Antartica was played for the first time at a Halle Concert in Manchester on 14 January 1953. At the last minute it was discovered that the spelling ‘Antarctica’ was incorrect in Italian and was amended. The occasion attracted wide publicity and the hall was full. As Richard Capell succinctly wrote in the Daily Telegraph’. ‘The composer was present, and when his tragic but uplifting music was over he received one of the great ovations of his long career.’ On the whole the critical verdict was favourable, although there was much debate whether it was a symphony. Colin Mason, in the Manchester Guardian, forthrightly called attention to the work’s ‘masterly and completely unified symphonic form’ and stressed the originality of its design and the symphonic logic of the treatment of the material. |
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