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Three years ago Musical America offered a $3,000 prize for the best symphonic work submitted by a U. S. composer. Last spring Judges Walter Damrosch, Serge Koussevitzky, Leopold Stokowski, Alfred Hertz and Frederick Stock voted the prize to Ernest Bloch for a symphony named America. In late December, almost simultaneously, the five conductor-judges will give America its first performances?Dec. 20 in Manhattan and San Francisco, Dec. 21 in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago. Other major orchestras may lift their voices in unison...
...concerts in Symphony Hall are decided on, while two other performances are not yet definitely dated. These are the Bloch Symphony, to be given some time during the winter, and the Chorus from the last act of Parsival some time during the spring...
...Bloch Giovanni Martinelli
...then again, in your review of Gdal Staleski's book [TIME, April 9, p 32] you just couldn't resist the temptation to try to slam the Jews. You mention a list of Jewish composers among them Ravel, Mendelssohn, Rubinstein, Saint-Saens, and Bloch. Very fine and good. But you clever editors must have your say. A little note does the trick! So you lightly dismiss the Jewish composers with "But Beethoven, Wagner, Strauss, Tschaikowsky, etc., etc., vere Gentiles." Your entire attitude is nothing short of insulting to the intelligence of your readers. It is 100% befitting vacuocaputs...
...Ernest Bloch's symphony Israel, as played last week by the Cleveland Orchestra in Manhattan, was full of the woes of "a pious and sinful people." Full of fear of Jehovah, despair of stricken souls, anguished groping for light, the music was illustrated upon the vast stage by figures in tan and black flowing robes. Men of the priestly order (among them Dancer Michio Ito), mourning women bearing lighted candles, suppliants in prayer shawls, a pilgrim, the Ba'al Tokea, moved against the austere background of the enormous Wailing Wall of Jerusalem, achieved the spirit of Isaiah crying...