Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 4-1-1944 Volume 62, Number 04 (April 1944) James Francis Cooke Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Music Pedagogy Commons, and the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Cooke, James Francis. "Volume 62, Number 04 (April 1944)." , (1944). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/218 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the John R. Dover Memorial Library at Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. r oria , THE FIRST PERFORM- ANCE of a full-length symphony, composed for and dedicated with per- mission to the Army Air Forces, by Corporal Sam- UhcisuaL College uel Barber, took place AmemcA's most on March 3 in Boston, when the work was pre- Samuel Boston Barber sented by the Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky. The “Symphony Dedicated to the Army Air ORATORIOS, OPERAS Forces,” was begun last September at IN ITS RADIO PROGRAMS, CONCERTS, RECITALS, Fort Worth Army Airfield, Texas, when APPEARANCE, some in Corporal Barber accompanied pilots on AFFORDS STUDENTS OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC many flights. It is his second work in this f:rm, his “First Symphony” having- HERE. THERE. AND EVERYWHERE ASSOCIATION WITH PROMINENT GUEST ARTISTS. been written in 193G, and having the dis- tinction of being the only American work IN THE MUSICAL WORLD produced that season in Salzburg, when it was conducted by Artur Rodzinski.