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Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) conducts the NBC Symphony in Bedrich Smetana's overture to The Bartered Bride, Giuseppe Martucci's First Symphony, Kurt Atterberg's Midsummer Dances, Maurice Ravel's second Daphnis et Chloe suite...
...indeed is the state of musical affairs when so feeble a composition as Kurt Atterberg's wins the $10,000 Symphonic prize of the Schubert Centennial Contest (TIME, Dec. 3). So did critics mourn in Manhattan last week and in many a major city in Europe-all save Ernest Newman of the London Sunday Times who refused even to take it seriously, marked great slices in it as belonging to Dvorak, Berlioz, Stravinsky, to Schubert himself, and laughed...
...Sweden, Composer Atterberg is also a musical critic. There, reading the estimates of his symphony, he chose to laugh with Ernest Newman's review headed "Attaboy. " Critic Newman had called the $10,000 "a fair price for a fair symphony which is what Atterberg has delivered f. o. b. as per esteemed order of yesterday's date, and hoping for continuation of valued custom.";,Composer Atterberg took the same tack, let his laughter reverberate through the press: that all along he had meant it only as a joke; that he had deliberately plagiarized and that only one critic...
...latter commission they were, as had been predicted, unable to fulfill because none of the efforts submitted seemed entirely adequate. The grand prize of $10,000 offered by the Columbia Phonograph Company they could and did award-to one Kurt M. Atterberg, 40, of Sweden, for his Symphony in C Major...
...following Intercollegiate Civic League article on "The National Department of Commerce and Labor" is written by Hon. Oscar S. Straus, Secretary of that department. Mr. Straus was born in Atterberg, Rhenish Bavaria, but came to this country early in life. His first important diplomatic office after his graduation from Columbia was his appointment in 1887 by President Cleveland as United States Minister to Turkey. He was elected a member of the permanent court of arbitration at the Hague six years ago, and entered his present position last year...
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