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Last week the Chicago Symphony played the first U. S. work on its list of firstlings. It was a brand-new symphony by Chicago's suave, handsome John Alden Carpenter, who withdrew in 1936 from his family's big twine and awning business, dislikes being called the most eminent U. S. "businessman-composer...
Died. Dane Coolidge, 67, bronzed, bearded naturalist and prolific New England-born author of Western novels; third cousin of Calvin Coolidge, direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden; in Berkeley, Calif...
...York City Councilman Joseph Clark Baldwin (Republican) hired a new stenographer. The new officeholder: Sarah Alden Derby, 19, granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President...
...brow music were Brahms, Grieg, Wagner. Just before World War I, Kulturbolschewiks Arnold Schonberg and Igor Stravinsky (TIME, March 11) led a revolution against musical romanticism. When the revolution was over, U. S. composers still found themselves writing European music. Such U. S. composers as Aaron Copland and John Alden Carpenter tried to go native by using jazz tunes, but only the tunes were American. The musical grammar and syn tax still sounded like Brahms or Stravinsky. Today there is still probably no high brow U. S. music that can be identified as such in a blindfold test...
Topping them all was the James Chapin retrospective at the Associated American Artists' Galleries. For it, Critic Edward Alden Jewell went off the deep end. Wrote he: "It establishes his position as second to none in our contemporary roster. It contains some of the finest painting of our time. It ... constitutes a full and ringing American challenge. In a word, this show is the real thing...