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...quite different from the somewhat eclectic Symphony No. 2 of Schuman they had first heard twelve years ago-and rewarded with "practically silence," as Schuman remembers it. A man who used to compose with one ear to Hindemith and Roy Harris (his teacher), the other sometimes to Atonalist Alban Berg, Schuman seemed to have found a little more of a style...
Beautiful Promise. But, wrote Ansermet, Stravinsky and Twelve-Toner Arnold Schönberg had added two bands of color to the spectrum of western music, "ultraviolet and infra-red." Among other hopefuls, "Alban Berg [TIME, May 31] has written pages of overwhelming beauty. The hour of Berg will come . . . Bartok is a symbol of our times. He is one of those who search groaningly, even though he may appear to be smiling. His last works are the most beautiful promise that modern music has offered...
...Author Davenport's way of reversing the normal scale of values. No matter how largely they may figure, art, literature, history, the soul of man itself here becomes secondary to the prime concern-surface appearances. When Author Davenport looks at a medieval painting of the martyrdom of Saint Alban, she merely observes, with an artist's pure detachment, that the saint's collar "shows the new interest ... in the vertical line and in the center-front." In another such painting, Job's boils are ruthlessly ignored in favor of Mrs. Job's hat ("the turban...
Berg: Lyric Suite (Galimir String Quartet; Vox-Polydor, 8 sides). In this suite, one of his last works, the late Alban Berg (TIME, May 31) put his teacher Arnold Schonberg's theories to test, came up with perhaps the best work yet composed in twelve-tone technique. That still doesn't make it very listenable to ordinary unpracticedears. Performance: excellent. Recording : excellent...
...Alban Berg was a composer who rode to fame on only one work. His great, gloomy atonal opera, Wozzeck, is seldom performed, but it put his name in the musical history books...