Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Carl Van Doren, 53, bang-haired literary critic, author (Benjamin Franklin); and Jean Wright Gorman, 38-year-old Manhattanite; both for the second time; in San Francisco...
Last Monday Critic Lawrence Oilman had the sniffles. Reading Donald Tovey's recondite Essays in Musical Analysis, he came across a sentence which made him hop out of bed and call up NBC's Musical Commentator Samuel Chotzinoff. Did Mr. Toscanini know that Wagner's original prelude to the third act of Tannhauser, which got only one performance (at the opera's world premiere, 1845), was much longer than the one usually played? Arturo Toscanini, who has a memory like a telephoto camera, could remember having seen some such score. On Tuesday a phone call...
Mumford's Action. The fugleman for Camp No. 2 is Lewis Mumford. Famed U. S. critic and social planner, he in his Men Must Act ($1.50) declared with much emotion and not a little practicality for a plan to stymie the dictators first, then lick them if necessary...
...broadcasts, he practically spits: "It is killing music and musicians. I don't believe it [helps to make people more musical than they are]. It just robs them of any possible personal musical activity and of their musical keenness; it casts a spell of laziness on them." (Nevertheless, Critic Paderewski's first public performance on his coming U. S. tour will be a broadcast over the NBC-Blue network.) About jazz he is more tolerant. Says he: "To be frank, I detest it. But it can be used judiciously." Secretary Sylwin Strakacz, a confirmed swing fan, has long...
...months ago Critic Alfred Frankenstein of the San Francisco Chronicle received a letter from a small boy in Australia named Peter Buxton. Peter wanted to know the answers to some questions about "Mr. Yehudi" (Menuhin). Critic Frankenstein was so taken with Peter's knowledgeable prattle that he appointed him the Chronicle's Critic-Down-Under. Last week Critic Buxton's last year's concert-hall impressions were made public under the heading Reasume...