Word: bloch
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...Bloch Subsidized...
...other, patrons who provided their material support in order that genius might flourish unhampered. The custom is now outworn but last week in San Francisco a semblance of it reappeared when heirs of the late Jacob and Rosa Stern, wealthy Jews, established a fund whereby Jewish Com- poser Ernest Bloch will be endowed for the next ten years at the rate of $5,000 a year. Composer Bloch is regarded by many as the greatest U. S. composer.* Yet his livelihood has had to come largely from teaching-from 1920 to 1925 as director at the Cleveland Institute of Music...
...Born in Switzerland, Composer Bloch is a U. S. citizen. His last symphonic work, America, is a patriotic outburst in the manner of Walt Whitman (TIME...
...existing group selected from 20,000 secondary school musicians. These picked players bundled themselves last week from Atlantic City, where they played at the National Education Conference, to Philadelphia, Manhattan and Washington. All who heard them found their efforts praiseworthy. But for most Manhattan critics their Tchaikovsky-Liszt-Bloch program was over ambitious...
...Trantoul who was Julien, her lover. Better characterizations were those of Contralto Marion Telva as the ill-tempered mother; of Basso Leon Rothier as the father so dumbly doting that he drove Louise back to Julien and the free-and-easy Paris. The audience appeared to appreciate most Max Bloch who as an old-clothesman stalked on the stage and off wearing half a dozen toppling, ill-assorted hats...