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Then came what Emmanuel calls "a rather queer question." Stanger asked: were you a friend of Jean Richard Bloch? Emmanuel writes, that Bloch, who died in 1947, "was an important French writer, President of the Association of the French Press, and also a communist." Emmanuel answered Stanger that he had met Bloch several times, but could not call himself a friend of his. Why then, Stanger asked, did you attend his funeral...
Last month, volatile little Composer Ernest Bloch gave Portland, Ore. music lovers his best advice on how to behave at a concert (TIME, March 7). "Don't be inhibited," he hollered happily from the podium, "I'm not!" In Manhattan last week daughter Suzanne Bloch was proving herself a chip...
Hours of Joy. Composer Bloch, small, bald and grey-fringed, stood on the stage in front of Werner Janssen's* Portland Symphony Orchestra and began with a speech. Gesturing and stomping, he explained that America was written for all the people, "not just for the intelligentsia and the snobs." It was the story of America: the soil, the Indians, the Mayflower, the Pilgrims, hours of joy, hours of sorrow, the present and the future...
Turning to the organist, Composer Bloch directed him to thunder the final anthem theme, while the audience listened. Then he had the audience sing his words through twice-first sitting down, then standing...
...audience, excited by all the noise and the sound of their own voices, gave perspiring Composer Bloch a rousing standing ovation: they were already on their feet, right where he had ordered them...