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Deems Taylor

November 23, 2024 |

this satirical bit brings to mind a Deems Taylor story. He came in for the second piece of concert that was complete programmatic movement. Deems thought the first piece was being performed. and all the allusions were wrong. Mark Twain in Roughing it writes of many mistakes like this.

father of the great libertarian scholar and editor Joan Taylor.

Deems Taylor: A Biography, by James A. Pegolotti.

Composer, critic, author, and radio personality, (Joseph) Deems Taylor (1885-1966) was one of the most influential figures in American culture from the 1920s through the 1940s. A self-taught composer, the New York City native wrote such pieces as the orchestral suite Through the Looking Glass and the acclaimed operas The King's Henchman and Peter Ibbetson, the first commissions ever offered by the Metropolitan Opera. Taylor's operatic works were among the most popular and widely performed of his day, yet he achieved greatest fame and recognition as the golden-voiced intermission commentator for the New York Philharmonic radio broadcasts and as the on-screen host of Walt Disney's classic film Fantasia. With his witty, clever, charming, and informative but unpatronizing manner, he almost single-handedly introduced classical music to millions of Americans across the nation.

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