Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power, one of their first concerns was the organization, with characteristic German thoroughness, of Germany's musical life along strictly Nazi lines. Dominant in the official Nazi attitude toward music were: 1) the Nazi theories of race, 2) Nazi objections to all satirical, "unwholesome" or experimental types of art. Public performance of works by Jewish composers like Mendelssohn and Gustav Mahler was banned. Likewise banned (though somewhat less systematically) were the discordant works of atonalists and other modernist composers...
Last week in the industrial town of Düsseldorf, Nazi musical authorities opened a Reich Music Congress, attended by musical big& little-wigs from all over Germany. Outstanding event on the program was an exhibition of "degenerate music" patterned after the exhibition of "degenerate art" that drew throngs in Munich last summer (TIME, Aug. 2). Scheduled for the pillory were compositions by Atonalists Schönberg, Berg and Hindemith, jazz, theoretical and critical writings by Jews and modernist sympathizers...
...world's most formidable cultural organization, Germany's Kulturkammer (Chamber of Culture). Under the directorship of club-footed Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels, the Kulturkammer controls all artistic activity that takes place within German borders. Important among its seven sub-chambers (literature, music, press, theatre, art, cinema, radio) is the Musikkammer, presided over by 65-year-old Peter Raabe, one of Germany's numerous lesser symphonic conductors. Every musician in Germany, from symphonic composer to drummer in a town band, must be a member of the Musikkammer. The Kammer fixes and assures collection of composers...
Tonight Freshmen will dance to the music of Art Shaw and Claude Hopkins in a Union transformed by a lower colling and spotlights. Tomorrow the Union, back in its usual guise will be open to ladies, and Jubilee night at the Pops will climax the week...
...Arthur Evans was the man who made the discoveries of Minoan art in Crete that affected the whole conception of early Grecian history. His collection for the most part was not acquired from other connoisseurs nor from dealers but was gathered during a lifetime of personal search. He picked up his first gem in a bazaar in Bosnia on a youthful walking trip, found others during seven years of research on the Eastern Adriatic shores and in travels around Sicily. Most of them, however, came in the period of his digging in Crete, where he even found them worn...