Word: atonalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alban Berg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Louis Krasner with the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinski; Columbia; six sides). Much of the music of Viennese Composer Berg, who died in 1935 (a disciple of Atonalist Arnold Schonberg), sounds like tortured, caterwauling doubletalk. But in this concerto, his atonalism is for once eloquent and heartfelt; it is Composer Berg's elegy on the death of his friend Manon Gropius, daughter of famed Architect Walter Gropius. The Clevelanders and Modernist Krasner give a stirring performance...
Walter Piston: Sonata for Violin and Piano (Louis Krasner and the composer; Columbia; 4 sides; $2.50). Boston Atonalist Piston writes with his head only. For modern music's strong-man violinist Krasner (TiME, Dec. 16), Piston's mental calisthenics are grammar-grade stuff...
Ernst Toch: Quintet, Op. 64 (Kaufman Quartet and the composer at the piano; Columbia; 8 sides; $4.50). Austrian Atonalist Toch takes time out from writing music for Hollywood pictures to do a quiet, methodical job of concert-hall hair-raising...