Word: bohemianized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bohemian Club Prize of $75, for as original musical composition, was awarded to Allen D. Sapp, Jr., of Brya Mawr, Pa., for a sonaia for cello and piano...
...hand for the school's launching at a luncheon in San Francisco's Bohemian Club was Humanist Lewis Mumford. Said he: "Here is a challenge to a fresh creative effort in education . . . the production of complete human beings, harmoniously disciplined to create within themselves and within their society the order that will banish the barbarous mechanisms and the mechanized barbarisms that now threaten...
Grant Wood got to Paris, but Paris just confused him. He studied dutifully at the famed Julian Academy, dressed with Bohemian flamboyance, grew a crop of pink whiskers, painted scores of ordinary, dreamy, old-world impressionist landscapes. But his heart was not in it. He finally decided: "All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow." He went back to his native Iowa, to paint the country and the people he knew. But it was not in Iowa, but back in Europe again, that he discovered the style that finally made...
Last of the great line of Central European symphonists, Mahler, a Bohemian Jew, has been dead for 30 years, but among musicians his name is still good for a dogfight. In Vienna, for Nazi reasons, Gustav Mahlerstrasse has been renamed Meistersingerstrasse-rendered Gustav Meistersingerstrasse by subversive Viennese. In the U.S., Mahler partisans are organized as intensely as movie-fan clubs. One group awards a Mahler medal to outstanding torchbearers (Philadelphia's Conductor Eugene Ormandy, Boston's Sergei Koussevitzky, German Exile Bruno Walter-Mahler's disciple). Commentator at the broadcasts is Czech Author Franz Werfel, third husband...
...Eisler, composer of the battle song Komin-tern, it is not Mexican, but an ultrasophisticated mixture of Hindemith, Schönberg and Prokofieff. This was not the way Steinbeck had planned it. His first choice for composer was Mexico's famed Silvestre Revueltas, a man of Balzacian corpulence, Bohemian courses, and a gift for orchestration. At the climax of their negotiations the hard-drinking Revueltas-to Steinbeck's and Mexico's dismay -died at the unripe age of 40 years...