Word: brahmsians
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Martinu quartet. It was dazzlingly clever. As far as I could see, it capitalized on every music sure-fire ever invented: catchy, inclusive rhythms, abrupt changes in tempo, wild polytonality, a string technique which graded off from whole pages of unbearably shrill violin-chatter at some times to a Brahmsian luxuriance at others; to boot, reams of discordant counterpoint and impressively dull masses of sound. The quartet was musical sleight-of-hand personified, and it oozed cleverness. But it didn't ring true. Its themes bickered away in endless mediocrity, in a ceaseless spewing forth of notes and more notes...
...conducting, with Eunice Howard; Victor: 3 sides). A warmhearted gentleman who spent much of his life applauding the music of other U. S. composers, the late Henry Hadley himself wrote well-tailored, gentlemanly music. Up to now, none of it has been recorded. Warmer and more interesting than his Brahmsian Concertino is the little semi-popular piece October Twilight, which fills out this album's fourth side...