Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Critics, offering comprehensive reasons for his immortality, saw no prospect of his music's passing. Said the "Trenton Tough," George Antheil, he of the "Ballet Mecanique" and the panic-striking propeller (TIME, March 21) : "Beethoven is my hero especially on account of form." Said Music Critic William James Henderson: "The supremacy of tone art lay for him [Beethoven] in the identity of form and substance, of matter and embodiment...
Said Ubiquitous Critic Mencken: "Very few of the immortal creators have escaped periods of neglect and contumely. Shakespeare, as everyone knows, was regarded as a second-rater during part of the 18th Century, and various imbeciles set themselves to the job of editing and improving him. Even Bach had his twilight, and it took a Mendelssohn to rescue him. But only fools have ever questioned the mightiness of Beethoven-and not many fools...
...American Mercury was founded in 1924 to give Editor Mencken scope for his vituperation of the U. S. scene. He and Drama Critic George Jean Nathan had become financially comfortable, not through Smart Set which they edited with more thought than thanks, but through two little aphrodisiacs, La Parisienne and Saucy Stories, founded for revenge and sold at fat profits. The revenge was upon society...
...filed out on the stage, dropped their chins, eyed their leader and gave vent, first to a song of their own choice, then to the required piece-"The Lotus Flower," it was this year, by Robert Schumann- and last to what newsgatherers love to call an "alma mater." Music Critic Olin Dowries of the New York Times, introduced by Dr. Walter Damrosch, presided over a board of judges which marked the young gentlemen's tone, diction, pitch, ensemble, interpretation. Conferring afterwards, the judges declared that the title had been retained by the melodious 1926 champions from Wesleyan University, whose...
Before ending this splurge of architectural enthusiasm the Vagabond strongly advises all his fellows to attend the lecture of Ernest Newman at Symphony Hall this evening. Mr. Newman, the music critic of the London Sunday Times, is considered one of the foremost authorities in the world, and has come all the way from England especially to deliver this lecture in connection with the Beethoven Centenary...