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Richard Edelman, Marvin Stern, and Malcolm Bloch have been named to the entertainment committee while Myron Finer, Norman Dickter, and Raymond Fitch will handle the decorations. The committee's next dance will be the Yale Dater, with Stan Harris' orchestra playing. Tickets go on sale tomorrow and only a limited number will be available...
Scoring on a pitch-out pass from Bloch to Ross to Edelstein, Thayer North eked out a close 6 to 0 victory over Matthews North...
...Bloch: String Quartet No. 2 (Stuyvesant String Quartet; International, 8 sides). Good, but not the most brilliant Bloch. He got off to a fine start but faltered along the way. Performance: fair...
...Bloch had grown up in Geneva-a Geneva seething over the Dreyfus affair-the son of a clock merchant. He studied music in Brussels, Munich and Paris, but when his father's business went bad, he came home to help. As a child, he learned from his father the Jewish lore and emotional melodic strains that permeate his music, but he dislikes being classified, as he often is, as a racial composer...
...citizen since 1924, Bloch taught in Manhattan, and headed conservatories in Cleveland and San Francisco. But he wanted to compose, not teach. For a time he was subsidized by Cellist Gerald Warburg (son of Banker Felix) and by a wealthy San Francisco family. He retired with his wife and cats to the Oregon seaside in 1941. There, while showing his lute-playing composer daughter how Bach used 48 themes in his Well-Tempered Clavier, he got the theme for the finale of his recent Suite Symphonique. "Suzanne and I were sitting on the little stone steps in the garden...