Evening star., 1928-12-30
Eastman School Has Given
Works by 43 Americans

THE Eastman School of Music of the
l. University of Rochester will con-
duct five American composers concerts
this season, as announced by DR.. How
ard Hanson, director of that school.
These concerts will continue to give op-
portunity to native composers to hear
adequate performance of their works,
and also will serve as means to de-
termination of orchestral works that are
deemed most suitable for publication.
The school will continue to sponsor the
publication of selected works.
The Eastman School, under inspira-
ton from DR.. Hanson, entered this
movement on behalf of American Gre
ative music, as pioneer. There IS now
wide cooperation in the movement.
Prominent orchestraS are including
American works in their programs; the
Beethoven Orchestra of New York. as
an avowed policy, plays one American
work at each concert; Albert StoesSei
has featured a large number of Anleri-
can works in his concerts at Chattauuua
and included an all-American program
in the Worcester festival; music maga-
zines encourage by prize awards the
composition of American orchestral
works; the interest in the development
of native creative music is alive as it
never has been before.
The first concert in the Eastman
School of Music American composers
series was given in Kilbourn Hall, No.
vember 81. DR.. Howard Hanson con-
Quoted an orchestra selected from the
Rochester Philharmonic. Compositions
featured were Leo Sowerby'S suite,
From the Northland;;" Aaron Cop
lands Concerto for Organ and Orches-
ira" and the first performance of Ran
dali Thompson's new Jazz Poem for
Piano and Orchestra"
The accomplishment of the Eastman
School American composers concerts
in the past four years is herewith pre-
Sented in lists of composers and compo-
sitionS and list of the compositions
published by the school:
Ernest Bacon ........ Prelude and fugue.
Two songs with orchestra.
John g Besc6 Ballet. The phantom sstyr,,,
Charles Charles wax Wakefield cadman Ean'e Aamen'a0'ie
osanb c6ptS The Sunset TTsil
Came for chorus, orchestra and solo
voices
Aaron 6ngbaI Gopan GDstese Macahre," from
Prelude from Music for the Theater"
Edward G,,eia Delaney ..,,. co.n. r.
Eric de Lamarter THE Betrothal Suite"
The One Hundred and Forty-Fourth
=, Psalm - for voice and orchestra.
Ballet suite. 1.-The Happy Hypocrite."
Prelude and ballet from "A Forest Play"
THE Lament Of Beowulf," for chorus and
Walters HrenfsFEa: Edward Howe
symphonic poem, Outside the Tent"
IVY Andante from an unfinished symphony.
Herbert Inch. Variations on a model theme
Frederick jacob
Nocturne from symphony No. !;
A. G. Kroeger. Symphonic poem, IS. P. D. S."
w..,.v =. sgits Of sketches for orchestra.
I'm Memoriam." Armistice day, 1919.
Charles Martin Loeffier
FranciS).
Otto Luening ..... Symphonic poem
Three songs for soprano and orchestra.
Serenade for three horns and strings.
symphony. From the Black Hills" first
Leopold Names ....... Suite for orchestra
Douglas Moore
u.ro,a Mdlr,s IThs Pageant of p. T Bsrnum;"
quincy Porter Ukranian suite for strings
Caprice for ten .vlolins.
Bernard Rogers. Symphony. "Adonais."
soliloauy for flute and string orchestra.
Edward Royce
Symphonic poem. peace and War"
Leo Sowerby. "A Set of Four IronicS"
,,-,..,,, Medieval poem, organ and orchestra.
"The Weeping Earth" for orchestra, or
gan. chorus and tenor.
Alexander Lang Steinert
Tone poem, Southern Night"
William Grant Still. 49,. Darker America"
Albert StoesSel. .........,. Suite ANTIQUE"
Edwin Stringham ........... Three paStels
Randall Thompson
Symphonic poem. 1.-The Piper at the
Gates of Dawn"
'Pierrot and Cothernus," prelude to q
play by Edna Vincent Millay.
Donald Tweedy. Symphonic study, allegro"