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...arts and sciences must be purified. No more need peaceful, respectable persons listen to the barbaric, Hunnish melodies of Brahms, Bach, Beethoven Mozart, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Schubert, Strauss; no more need our ears be offended at Christmas time by the hellish notes of Stille Nacht, the voice of Schumann-Heink; no more of the militaristic preachings of Schiller, Goethe, Luther...
...Beethoven: Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra (Jascha Heifetz, violinist, with the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini; Victor: 9 sides). The most majestic of fiddle works. needled with titanic energy by a great combination. But there are familiar faults: NBC's Studio 8-H is as dull for recording as for inside listening; Maestro Toscanini's refusal to pause for breaks between record sides makes it necessary for engineers to break arbitrarily...
After listening to the Philharmonic, elegant Mr. Thomson headed his review Age Without Honor. He shrugged at its Beethoven, compared its Elgar with "that massively frivolous patchwork in pastel shades of which one sees such quantities in any intellectual British suburban dwelling." Calling Sibelius "vulgar, self-indulgent and provincial," he stated that he had never met a Sibelius-lover among "educated professional musicians." In Critic Thomson's sum: "The music . . . was soggy, the playing dull and brutal. As a friend remarked who had never been to one of these concerts before, 'I understand now why the Philharmonic...
Harvard's yell-coaxers committed a serious sin against the First Commandment of pious and right-living cheer leaders. The boys simply weren't together. Counterpoint is fine in a Beethoven concerto, and uneven entrance and exit of voices the distinguishing characteristic of a Bach fugue. But the well-ordered cheer is strict harmony; and the cheering section will never be harmonious until the leaders all move the same way at the same time. Individualism has no place in cheer-leading--it has to be done as Hitler would have...
...with a party, advertised in newspapers for guests, limited their visit "to ten minutes for men over 18-ladies over 16." He drew about 1,000 people, who received a pamphlet written by Thaw on the Belgian food crisis, listened to a five-piece orchestra play Tchaikovsky and Beethoven, gulped free soda pop, watched Thaw eat dinner in the kitchen, were ushered out soon after 9 p.m. by city detectives...