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Last week, Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music and the League of Composers combined to pay tribute to Composer Ernest Bloch. Juilliard faculty members and students played his rich, rhapsodic chamber music and orchestral compositions (including the now famed Schelomo) in a two-day festival. Composer Bloch, now 67 and clean-shaven, has never written any tunes that are hummed in every U.S. household. But musicians rank him, along with Stravinsky, Hindemith and Schoenberg, as the best of the European expatriates now in the U.S. Bloch knows as much about strident dissonances and spastic rhythms as the next...
...Composer Bloch was too ill to make the 3,000-mile trip from his cliff-hung home on the Oregon coast to the festival, but he was not too ill to compose. He spends his days combing the beach looking for agates, and mushroom-hunting in the salal and salmonberry woods nearby. In the huge living room of his house, near a life-size woodcarving of Christ, he works nervously, but neatly, as always, on a piano concerto. He and his wife Marguerite find time to play with his half-dozen cats. Says he: "We can learn much from them...
...Metropolitan's Richard Bonelli (voice), England's Griller Quartet (chamber music) and Composer Ernest Bloch (music craftsmanship) are on the faculty. Sponsors include Pierre Monteux, Artur Rodzinski, Bruno Walter, Yehudi Menuhin, Artur Rubinstein, Laurence Tibbett, Helen Traubel, Lotte Lehmann and Joseph Szigeti. Hollywooders Darryl Zanuck, Ronald Colman, Alec Templeton and Jeanette MacDonald chipped in scholarships...
Unguarded and alone, the President of Mexico strolled out of the hot sunshine of Mexico City's Avenida Madero into the cool interior of the High Life Men's Store. At the counter, Manager Roberto Bloch absently said: "Yes?" Then he took another look at his customer and gasped: "Yes, Mr. President...
Miguel Aleman wanted an English scarf. He was in no hurry. He lingered over a red and black number, asked Bloch what he thought of it. Finally he selected a red scarf with yellow dots and a yellow one with red dots. He paid, picked up his package and walked out on to Madero's narrow sidewalk. An Indian lottery-ticket seller murmured "Good day, Mr. President." "Yes, but too hot," grinned Aleman. But most passers-by brushed past without noticing. A few looked back startled, not quite believing what they saw-for until recently Mexico had seen...