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...quartet amuse themselves with the truly American songs of George M. Cohan; let our soldiers march to the strains of Dixie and the Battle Hymn of the Republic; but let us reserve for our national anthem a composition which expresses the best we have in us-the Star-Spangled Banner...
...Star-Spangled Banner is not, and has never had any pretensions of being a martial song. ... It expresses, rather, the deep and reverent feeling inspired in the hearts of a peaceful people when they are confronted with the symbol of the ideals which lie at the basis of their national life...
...please 'Koussy' and the audience." The music itself is angular, rough, forceful, enthusiastic. Particular attention and praise also should be called to the plaintive woodwin solos at the close of "Look Down, Fair Moon," and the God knows-how-many voice orchestral fugue opening the "Song of the Banner...
...many voices already raised against the voice-vexing Star-Spangled Banner, Columnist Westbroolc Pegler added his vexed voice. He found the music generally unsingable, the lyrics "stilted . . . pompous . . . episodic doggerel," the whole business "simply out of the question." Proposed Pegler as a substitute: "the Maine Stein Song (Rudy Vallee's onetime plug) . . . a thumping, rousing, really musical piece done within the range of the normal, or barbershop, voice...
...have heard enough late nineteenth and early twentieth century works to last me through three seasons. Music of such mediocrity as Lopatnikoff's Sinfonictta Opus 27, Martinu's 1st Symphony, Bennett's "Sights and Sounds," and Loeffler's "A Pagan Poem" have been foisted off under the wornout banner of "giving the other fellow a chance," or "Becthoven and Brahms were never appreciated by their contemporaries, either." The program of January 23, for instance, consisted of the two last works mentioned, plus Hindemith's "Nobilissina Visione" Concert Suite, and Tschaikowsky's "Romeo and Juliet." When works of unquestionable fibre have...