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...talked about Poets W. H. Auden and E. E. Cummings, about modern dancing, and about vacation trips-"This time last year I was in Paris." She posed for photographers-smoothing Defense Attorney Archie Palmer's ruffled hair, adjusting the handkerchief in his suit, looking angry, looking happy, staring pensively into the distance...
...claim to have first offered creative opportunity to such men as Robert Edmond Jones, Donald Oenslager, and Robert Sherwood, but many significant new plays have been given their American premieres here under the Club's auspices. A brief list of some of the more important would include Auden and Isherwood's "The Dog Beneath the Skin," Saki's "The Watched Pot," Johnston's "A Bride for the Unicorn," Coctean's "La Machine Infernale," and Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral." The Club's production of "The Ascent of FL," early in the decade, is still a topic of conversation...
...moment bright young (30) Leonard Bernstein finished reading Poet W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety, "a baroque eclogue" in a Third Avenue bar (TIME, July 21, 1947), he felt a "compulsion" to compose a symphony based on it. For two years, on his busy rounds of baton waving and piano playing, he scribbled away from Taos to Tel Aviv, "in planes, in hotel lobbies." Last week Lennie's Symphony No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra was ready...
...when Conductor Serge Koussevitzky got it under way, the audience found No. 2 not at all hard to like. It opened with a quiet conversation between two clarinets-"the loneliest music I know" -symbolizing Auden's characters in the Third Avenue bar. Nearly 30 minutes later, it got to a huge, orgiastic orchestral climax, then resolved into a thoughtful epilogue. Overall, listeners heard more melody and less dissonance than they had come prepared to hear. Standout movement: a rhythmically terrific apotheosis of jazz, with Lennie himself at the piano, backed by bass fiddler and percussion...
...result is something very like an ecstatic vision. Readers who believe that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in most contemporary philosophy may agree with Reader W. H. Auden: "I think he's an uncertain craftsman, but I don't care...