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Composers & Music / Re: Great Unsung Tone Poems
Sunday 20 July 2014, 00:08
I'm sure someone else has mentioned this already, but I absolutely love William S. Lloyd Webber's Tone Poem "Aurora" (1948). I like the warm harmonies and the sweeping melodies in this short, but beautiful tone poem.

I'm not sure if this is a proper place to ask this, but I bought the full score from Decorum Books through AbeBooks almost a year ago; since then, I have been trying to decipher and identify what looks to be a signature on the front cover to no avail, so I thought I could ask here.

Images here: http://imgur.com/a/pb0Ek. The signature is located on the top right corner of the cover page, and it seems to be written using a marker(?) The only thing I can decipher is 1970, assuming it's a date - which is interesting because the first known performance/recording of this piece is made in 1986. Anyone has any ideas on what the signature might represent?
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Composers & Music / Re: Lorin Maazel (1930-2014)
Saturday 19 July 2014, 06:07
I absolutely adore his premier recording of William S. Lloyd Webber's Tone Poem "Aurora" with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1986; it's not as technically precise as the recording by Richard Hickox with the City of London Sinfonia in 1998, but the balance is much better and the phrasing is much smoother.